[Samba] GPO backup/restore questions

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Sep 7 21:11:20 UTC 2023


On Thu, 2023-09-07 at 22:01 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:45:24 +1200
> Andrew Bartlett via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org
> > wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2023-09-07 at 10:03 +0500, Anton Shevtsov via samba wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  ~]$  kinit administrator
> > > 
> > > Password for 
> > > administrator at AAA.BBB
> > > 
> > > :
> > > 
> > > Warning: Your password will expire in 27 days on Чт 05 окт 2023
> > > 09:44:26
> > > 
> > > [
> > > user at dc.aaa.bbb
> > > 
> > >  ~]$ klist
> > > 
> > > Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_500
> 
> Just a question, why does Administrator have a ticket with the ID
> '500', I would expect /tmp/krb5cc_0

That is just the local unix UID on the client, Anton is connecting as
user administrator, but is practising good security hygine and not
running the commands as root (using account user with local id 500) to make the connection.  This is best practice as root is not required as these commands don't use the local DB directly.

Andrew Bartlett
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