samedit

Matthew Geddes mgeddes at xavier.sa.edu.au
Fri Aug 25 01:21:47 GMT 2000


Christophe Dupre wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

root's Unix password.

> 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 ?

See above.

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

Check out the samedit manpage in the docs/yodldocs directory of the
Samba TNG distro. Also check out Lars Kneschke's Samba TNG FAQ. Check
the mailing list archives for the URL.

Hope it helps,
Matt
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Matthew Geddes
Network Manager
Xavier College
Gawler, SA




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