Bug 8301 - smbd does not start if nobody account is missing
Summary: smbd does not start if nobody account is missing
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.5
Classification: Unclassified
Component: File services (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.9
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Volker Lendecke
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2011-07-12 03:35 UTC by jinyunshuai
Modified: 2011-07-12 05:24 UTC (History)
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Description jinyunshuai 2011-07-12 03:35:43 UTC 
version:
OS: RHEL 5.5 x86_64
samba: samba-3.3.9

When I use "userdel noboby" to remove the user of nobody.
and restart samba service and running a 
status check, it shows the following:

bash-3.2$ service samba status 
nmbd (pid 8201) is running...
winbindd (pid 8245 8229 8208 8207) is running...
smbd dead but pid file exists

Log:
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(327)
   setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 1
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  5] auth/token_util.c:debug_nt_user_token(522)
   NT user token: (NULL)
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  5] auth/token_util.c:debug_unix_user_token(548)
   UNIX token of user 0
   Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  6] passdb/pdb_interface.c:pdb_getsampwsid(279)
   pdb_getsampwsid: Building guest account
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  0] passdb/pdb_interface.c:guest_user_info(253)
   guest_user_info: Unable to locate guest account [nobody]!
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:pop_sec_ctx(435)
   pop_sec_ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
 [2011/07/08 14:44:11,  0] smbd/server.c:main(1403)
   ERROR: failed to setup guest info.

this issue also exits samba-3.5.*
Comment 1 Volker Lendecke 2011-07-12 05:24:47 UTC 
This works as designed. We do need a guest account.