** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: likewise-open
  
  1/ lsb_release -rd:
  Description:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:        10.04
  
  2/ apt-cache policy likewise-open
  likewise-open:
-   Installed: 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1
-   Candidate: 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1
-   Version table:
-  *** 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1 0
-         500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 5.4.0.42111-2ubuntu1 0
+         500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  3/ After a do-release-upgrade from 9.10 server to 10.04, I expected my
  ActiveDirectory logins to still work as expected...
  
  4/ ...unfortunately, the upgrade mangled some settings and the
  ActiveDirectory logins were not possible anymore
  
  I found out that the "require-membership-of" setting of /etc/likewise-
  open5/lsassd.conf was not correctly transferred to the new
  "RequireMembershipOf" registry key.
  
  More precisely, the setting:
  
-     require-membership-of = DOMAIN\group1,DOMAIN\group2
+     require-membership-of = DOMAIN\group1,DOMAIN\group2
  
  became:
  
-     "RequireMembershipOf" "DOMAINgroup1,DOMAINgroup2"
+     "RequireMembershipOf" "DOMAINgroup1,DOMAINgroup2"
  
  instead of:
  
-     "RequireMembershipOf" "DOMAIN\\group1" "DOMAIN\\group2"
+     "RequireMembershipOf" "DOMAIN\\group1" "DOMAIN\\group2"
  
  Thus, the following procedure (partially) resolved the issue:
  
-     sudo lwregshell
-         cd 
HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\Services\lsass\Parameters\Providers\ActiveDirectory
-       set_value "RequireMembershipOf" "DOMAIN\\group1" "DOMAIN\\group2"
-       <ctrl-D>
+     sudo lwregshell
+         cd 
HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\Services\lsass\Parameters\Providers\ActiveDirectory
+  set_value "RequireMembershipOf" "DOMAIN\\group1" "DOMAIN\\group2"
+  <ctrl-D>
  
-     sudo lw-refresh-configuration
+     sudo lw-refresh-configuration
  
  (I say "partially" because now I'm forced to use keyboard-interactive
  authentication when connecting with PuTTY. But I suppose it's another
  bug I have to track... :-| )
+ 
+ 
+ IMPACT STATEMENT
+ ================
+ 
+ Users cannot rely on lwregshell to correctly import values from the .reg
+ files, leading to unpredictable and possibly undesirable results.
+ 
+ 
+ TEST CASE
+ =========
+ 
+ 1. set RequireMembershipOf to desired groups in /etc/likewise-open/lsassd.reg
+ 2. import into registry
+ 3. inspect registry values 
+ 
+ grep "Membership" /etc/likewise-open/lsassd.reg
+   "RequireMembershipOf"=sza:"EXAMPLE\\test^users"
+ # lwregshell import /etc/likewise-open/lsassd.reg
+ # lw-refresh-configuration
+ # lwregshell
+ # 
+ 
+   "RequireMembershipOf"                    REG_MULTI_SZ[0]
+ "EXAMPLEtest^users"
+ 
+ 
+ Note improper import of '\\' characters.

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Title:
  likewise-open5 upgrade mangles RequireMembershipOf settings

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