samedit

Christophe Dupre duprec at scorec.rpi.edu
Fri Aug 25 00:45:25 GMT 2000


Hi all,
I'm a bit confused... I'm a new user of samba-tng. I got version 2.6 from
CVS, got it compiled with no problem on Solaris 7 with PAM support. I
don't know why I bothered to configure PAM since it can't use my NIS maps,
but anyway. 

I'm having a number of problems, into which I'll get in another post. My
main problem is, how do you authentify yourself when using samedit ? 

Let's say I have a brand new Samba installation, thus with an empty
smbpasswd file. I want to create first a standard user and then a
workstation account for setting up the trust relationship. From what I've
read, it is done from within samedit using createuser. So I start samedit
like this:

samedit -S . -U root

However, it is asking me for a password, but my smbpasswd is empty. How do
I jumpstart the installation ? After my admin user is created, I can
provide a password to do further work, but I don't see how I can provide
one the first time.

If none is required, then:
1/ Why is it prompted for?
2/ What's to prevent a standard user from playing with samedit ?

After creating a user with samedit, is there any additional step before it
can be used to access samba ?


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Christophe Dupre
System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY        USA
Phone: (518) 276-2578  -  Fax: (518) 276-4886





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