Bug 200070 – net-fs/samba no longer has oav USE flag (openantivirus support)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description skolima 2007-11-23 11:30:58 UTC]

Samba ebuild 3.0.24-r3 has support for USE="oav" (openantivirus), which builds vscan modules e.g. for clamav. The Gentoo installation instructions for samba also specify how to enable file scanning in samba using those features. But the flag, and the scanner modules, have been dropped from new samba ebuilds (3.0.25c-r2 and up).

So users upgrading (on stable profile - e.g. 3.0.27a) will loose the antivirus support.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Setup samba 3.0.24 as in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml.
Virus scanning through clamd works.
Upgrade to latest stable (3.0.27a currently).

Actual Results:  
Virus scanning no longer works, shares are unaccessible. Log shows:

[2007/11/23 11:28:15, 0] smbd/vfs.c:vfs_init_custom(155)
  Can't find a vfs module [vscan-clamav]
[2007/11/23 11:28:15, 0] smbd/vfs.c:smbd_vfs_init(280)
  smbd_vfs_init: vfs_init_custom failed for vscan-clamav
[2007/11/23 11:28:15, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(863)
  vfs_init failed for service IPC$


Expected Results:  
Samba correctly scans the shares using clamd.

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 12:03:12 UTC]

Dropped functionality is not a security issue.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 12:08:56 UTC]

And droppping broken functionality is not a bug, but a fix.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199769 ***