TNG: Samr can't open smbpasswd...

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Wed Feb 23 17:55:20 GMT 2000


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Michael Breuer wrote:

> I haven't check code yet, but when I attempt to manipulate smbpasswd
> using samedit, samr can't open the smbpasswd file (permission).  
> smbpasswd is owned by root and chmod 600.  Note that I can login and
> mount shares from w2k, I just can't join the domain or access
> smbpasswd from samedit.

samedit goes to \PIPE\samr, which goes to samrd.  you therefore need to
use a root login to make samrd do a setuid to root, which will allow
access to smbpasswd.





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