Admin equiv creates root owned files

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 30 May 1998, Tim Winders wrote:

> On Sat, 30 May 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> 
> > > I just noticed this and am questioning the security implications.  I have
> > > the following in smb.conf
> > > 
> > >    admin users = twinders
> > >    domain admin users = twinders
> > > 
> > > When I login to Win95/WinNT with the twinders username and correct
> > > password, any files created on the Samba server are owned root and group
> > > system.  This is under Digital Unix 4.0D and CVS HEAD from 5/24.  Can
> > > anyone explain why these files should be root owned instead of user owned?
> > 
> > this is explained in the smb.conf man page. 
> > 
> > It is tempting to remove this option completely as so many people seem
> > to just assume it works like the NT equivalent does. It really isn't a
> > very useful option. Jeremy, what do you think? remove it?
> > 
> > -----
> > .SS admin users (S)
> > 
> > This is a list of users who will be granted administrative privileges
> > on the share. This means that they will do all file operations as the
> > super-user (root).
> > 
> > You should use this option very carefully, as any user in this list
> > will be able to do anything they like on the share, irrespective of
> > file permissions.
> 
> I read this, but disagree with how it should work.  Is the ONLY thing it
> does is FILE permissions?  Are there other "domain" things that might pop
> up in the future? 

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