Administering SWAT using userid's other than root...

[Will Kim]

Hmm... Well, I just finished trying the following with no luck either...

wkim at hume [~]> id wkim
uid=95(wkim) gid=90(swat) groups=90(swat)
wkim at hume [~]> groups
swat

i.e. I removed myself from all groups but 'swat', and set that as my GID.
Yet it still doesn't work... sigh...

I even tried adding my entry in the local /etc/passwd file to override NIS,
but it didn't seem to make a difference.... I'm going to lose all my hair
over this... :)

Do you have any other suggestions?

Cheers,
Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Maes [mailto:werner.maes at cc.kuleuven.ac.be]
Sent: July 11, 2000 5:18 PM
To: Will Kim
Cc: samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: Administering SWAT using userid's other than root...


In my case the gid is the same as the group.
I mean when I do "id pcoperator" I get:
uid=505(pcoperator) gid=20611(operator) groups=20611(operator)

The "pcoperator" user can use SWAT just like root.
smb.conf ==> root:operator 660

In your case it's rather weird since your gid is not included in groups
which is
necessary in my opinion. With primary group I mean the GID !!!

Werner Maes
KULeuven

Will Kim wrote:

> Hi Werner,
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> This is what I have:
>
> wkim at hume [~/bin]> id wkim
> uid=95(wkim) gid=20(console) groups=0(root),90(swat)
> wkim at hume [~/bin]> groups
> console swat
>
> So when you say "primary group", do you mean my gid, or the first group?
(My
> gid is kind of messed because of NIS+ and inconsistent group id mappings
for
> non-relevant groups).
>
> Cheers,
> Will
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Maes [mailto:werner.maes at cc.kuleuven.ac.be]
> Sent: July 11, 2000 3:56 PM
> To: Will Kim; samba at samba.org
> Subject: Administering SWAT using userid's other than root...
>
> Well,
>
> Is the group "swat" your primary group or a secondary?
> Do "id username" to see what's your primary group.
>
> smb.conf: root:swat 664
> You need to have as a primary group the group that has write access to
> smb.conf.
> This works for me.
>
> Werner Maes
> KULeuven
>
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> Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:10:54 -0400
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> Hi all...
>
> Has anyone got SWAT administration working from other userid's other
> than
> root?
>
> I've got a rh6.2 box running Samba 2.0.7. I have myself (wkim) in the
> "domain admin users" and the "admin users". Both the smb.conf file and
> the
> swat binarary are owned by root:swat. I'm a part of group "swat". (I'm
> also
> a part of group "root" just to test, but it didn't make a difference).
> the
> conf file has permissions 664 and the swat binary has permissions 775.
>
> Any ideas why it won't let me do anything besides view the
> configuration?
>
> Cheers,
> Will