[Samba] "admin user =" problems

[abartlet at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:52:35PM +0200, Llu'is Batlle wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> The 'admin user' must have rights to add a user to the system (useradd command),
> because each machine in the domain must have a username in the unix system.
> Usually root is the only user able to add more users; so, it is the only one
> who can add machines to the domain.

This is incorrect.  Any 'admin user' listed in the smb.conf is root - they 
operate as uid == 0.  The problem is that 2.2 has a bug in they way that the 
session keys are calculated.

> Hope it helps!
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:28:53AM -0700, smb bert wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >     A good day to you all. i am testing samba 2.2.3a on an rh 7.3 linux box with windows 2000 as client. i noticed that the admin user parameter doesn't seem to work; i.e. when i specify any user other than root, i cannot seem to join a w2k machine into the domain. 
> > 
> >    Another thing i noticed is that, when logged on as the domain admin, i don't seem to have admin rights to the local computer. Is this normal?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >    Any comments/suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
> 
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