shadow password

David Bannon D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
Sun Oct 31 21:59:36 GMT 1999


At 07:27 AM 30/10/1999 +1000, Giulio Orsero wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 05:35:27 +1000, hai scritto:
>
>>>From /var/log/samba/log.star
>>[1999/10/29  3:26:25, 0] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(513)
>>  Error : UNIX and SMB uids in password files do not match for user 'root'!
>
>Then, have you set the password for root?
>smbpasswd root
>

I have to ask, do you really need root in the smbpasswd file? It seems to
be an unnecessary security risk to me. Have another user that is authorised
to do the samba admin stuff but does not have root permission.

David
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