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Tim Winders twinders at SPC.cc.tx.us
Thu Dec 3 23:18:25 GMT 1998


On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, David Bannon wrote:

> At 04:03 PM 03/12/1998 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> >> Further, and unrelated (?), 'log on' is not permitted if the user is
> >> mentioned in a group that is mentioned in the local.map, fine for everyone
> >> else.
> >
> >oh?? just "in a group", or if the group is the users' _primary_ group?
> 
> OK, bit more carefull testing.
> If user is a member of a group (say adm) that is mapped to
> "Administrators",  "System Operators" or even "Users", cannot logon. It
> does not matter if the (unix)group is the user's primary group or only
> mentioned in /etc/group.
> 
> However, if I map adm=BUILTIN\BlarBlar ie, a non existing NT Group, then
> logins occur without problems.
> 
> Now, _not_ using the map file but using a technique suggested by someone a
> week or so ago, add an entry to the /etc/group file thus :
> 
> Domain Admins:*:2000:dbannon,tony
> 
> Works fine ! I can logon with full admin rights. This is not a bad way to
> work, but I assume not the way you want to do it.

David -

On my system (Digital Unix 4.0D) I cannot have a group name or user name
longer than 8 characters.  At least in the default configuration...  so
the above would not work for me...

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