act as OS privilege under samba

[Matthew Geddes]

"John F. Blyberg" wrote:
> 
> Hi, we are running samba 2.0.5a-12.  Several of our NT 4.0 clients run
> software that requires the "act as OS privilege" enabled.  However, in the
> policy editor, no such policy can be found.  The only place I can find it is
> in the user manager or user manager for domains in NT but that does little
> good for the clients that log into the samba controlled domain as they get
> their policies from the samba netlogon share.
> 
> The software we are running has its internal security implementation, yet it
> uses NT permissions in order to access key features, ie. only the
> administrator may change security parameters within the software.  The
> security aspect of this software is very poorly designed and so I am having
> a hard time finding a work-around.
> 
> ---------
> John Blyberg
> Michigan Automotive Research Corp.
> 734/995-2544 ext. 227
> jblyberg at marco.com

There was apparently a tool that worked with Samba TNG that did User
Manager's job. Maybe someone can confirm this and let you know where to
get it?

Matt

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