[Samba] Permissions issue on domain member server (samba as an appliance)

[Luis Peromarta]

Administrator is a built in account in the AD. When you provisioned the domain with a password , that was Administrators password.

LP
On 29 Oct 2023 at 21:36 +0100, Greg Dickie via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
> Hey Rowland,
>
> Sorry, I'm thick. I understand why you would not want to create a linux
> user called Administrator but then where will the credentials come from? In
> my AD, I do not have a user called Administrator. I guess I must have a
> user with RID 500 though, I'll look for that.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Greg
>
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 3:09 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:14:52 -0400
> > Greg Dickie <greg at justaguy.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Rowland,
> > >
> > > Hmmm. I may have misunderstood. I don't believe it explicitly said to
> > > do that but I took it as that. Should I create a local Administrator
> > > account instead?
> > >
> >
> > The whole idea behind the user map on a Unix domain member is to map
> > the Domain Administrator account (RID 500) to the Unix user 'root'.
> > When you do something on Windows as 'Administrator' is done on Unix as
> > 'root'.
> >
> > I would never use 'Administrator' directly on Unix and here is why:
> >
> > I use the 'rid' idmap backend and if I run 'getent passwd
> > administrator', I get:
> >
> > administrator:*:10500:10513::/home/administrator:/bin/bash
> >
> > As you can see 'Administrator' has the ID '10500', which makes it a
> > normal Unix user with no special powers. However, from Windows via
> > Samba, the 'Administrator' ID is set to '0' by the user map and I hope
> > you realise what other Unix user has the ID '0'.
> >
> > If you haven't realised yet, no, do not create a local Administrator,
> > for one thing, you already have one :-)
> >
> > Rowland
> >
> >
> >
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