A fix to override the location of a user's home directory if it is

specified in the [homes] section of the smb.conf file.

Jeremy, can you take a look at this?  This is in response to someone on the
samba mailing list worrying about it.


Tim.

From: Phil Thompson <philnanne@mediaone.net>
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Different [homes] behavior in 2.2.2
X-Original-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:09:28 -0500


Is it possible to configure samba to disregard the home directory in the
passwd file when using [homes]?  Even though an alternate "path" is set
in [homes], the service fails since the unix home directory is invalid
(nonexistent) on the server.

[...]

This behavior of validating the user's home dir as set in the passwd
files appears to be new
in 2.2.2 and the latest CVS. Anyway to work around this?

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/lib/username.c b/source/lib/username.c
index e65f1338123..17627d4dae0 100644
--- a/source/lib/username.c
+++ b/source/lib/username.c
@@ -43,6 +43,22 @@ BOOL name_is_local(const char *name)
 char *get_user_home_dir(const char *user)
 {
 	static struct passwd *pass;
+	int snum;
+
+	/* If a path is specified in [homes] then use it instead of the
+	   user's home directory from struct passwd. */
+
+	if ((snum = lp_servicenumber(HOMES_NAME)) != -1) {
+		static pstring home_dir;
+		
+		pstrcpy(home_dir, lp_pathname(snum));
+		standard_sub_snum(snum, home_dir);
+
+		if (home_dir[0])
+			return home_dir;
+	}
+
+	/* Get home directory from struct passwd. */
 
 	pass = Get_Pwnam(user);