security=?

Rajeev Agrawala rajeeva at research.bell-labs.com
Mon Dec 6 19:32:22 GMT 1999


I am using samba 2.1-prealpha to test printing from NT. I need a setup
where only users I add in smbpasswd file gets access as root and rest of
them map to nobody. I have security=user set in my smb.conf. When I run
smbpasswd to add accounts, it core dumps on me. I am running samab on a
linux box running redhat 6.1.


[root at printm bin]# ./smbpasswd
doing parameter case sensitive = no
doing parameter map to guest = bad password
doing parameter smb passwd file = /LPRng/samba/private/smbpasswd
doing parameter printcap name = /LPRng/lpd_printcap
doing parameter print command = /LPRng/current/bin/lpr -P%p  -Zhost=%m
-r %s
doing parameter lpq command = /LPRng/current/bin/lpq -P%p
doing parameter lprm command = /LPRng/current/bin/lprm -P%p  %j
doing parameter load printers = yes
doing parameter guest account = nobody
doing parameter browseable = yes
doing parameter log file = /LPRng/samba/var/log.%m
doing parameter max log size = 50
doing parameter locking = yes
doing parameter lock directory = /LPRng/samba/var/locks
doing parameter share modes = yes
doing parameter security = user
doing parameter name resolve order = host wins
doing parameter nt forms file = /LPRng/samba/lib/nt/ntforms.def
doing parameter nt printer driver = /LPRng/samba/lib/nt
doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY
doing parameter os level = 64
doing parameter preferred master = no
doing parameter domain master = no
doing parameter local master = no
doing parameter wins support = no
doing parameter wins server = 135.104.26.122
doing parameter preserve case = yes
doing parameter short preserve case = yes
doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes
pm_process() returned Yes
Derived broadcast address 127.255.255.255
Added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0
cli_connect_serverlist: Domain password server not available.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


If I add a line
password server = localhost

Then running smbpasswd does not core dumps, but complains that
addition/change of password entry failed.

Please let me know, how do I go about setting it up. What I want is
that, a few users whom I add in smbpasswd file, should get root access
on the machine through samba and anybody not in smbpasswd file should
connect as nobody.

TIA,

rajeev


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