[Samba] smbusers and root privs

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel felipe at paranacidade.org.br
Mon Sep 11 12:29:26 GMT 2006


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On 09/08/2006 08:26 PM, reader at newsguy.com escreveu:
> Running samba-3.0.23c on Genoo linux
> 
> Is it possible with smbusers to allow a windows user to have root
> privleges on a linux share?
> 
> A stock install of samba on Gentoo ends up with an /etc/samba/smbusers
> file that contains this mapping:
>   root = administrator admin
> 
> It appears then that other windows users could as well be mapped to
> root like:
>   root = administrator admin harry
> 
> and since I am the only user on either linux or windows on this home
> network I'd like to map windows user harry to root but the above
> example does not accomplish that.
> 
> Is there something else required?

	Did you tried to add harry to the Domain Administrators
Group? (And you need netgroupmap configured to use that).

	Kind regards,

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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br>
Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informação (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE
http://www.paranacidade.org.br/           Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)
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