Samba 2.2 had a so-called appliance mode where you could add a unix user on the fly with an 'add user script' when the PDC had acknowledged the username and password AND the user did not exist in unix This does not work in samba 3.0 anymore.
Created attachment 4 [details] Proposed change to make 'add user script' work again. It compiles :-). Testing this would be good - particuarly checking 2.2 compatability.
change in behavior from 2.2. Need to address to break away from it.
Patch applied.
originally reported against 3.0alpha23. Bugzilla spring cleaning.
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.