Swat

[Martyn Ranyard]

At 08:58 AM 1/28/02 -0500, David L Nickel wrote:
>Last week I wrote about a problem when logging into Swat. Swat will not
>authenticate correctly. I ran swat with the -a option, but when I go to
>create a users it tells me it is not allowed to create users in demo mode.
>All I want the damn thing to do is authenticate my root account for admin
>purposes....
>Thanks

Then the answer is probably to add root to your smbpasswd file, but make 
sure you use a different password than the real one.

I actually duplicated the root option in /etc/passwd, made it have no valid 
shell or home dir, and called it Administrator.  this I then chose a very 
obscure random letters password and added the user to smbpasswd with one of 
our administrative passwords.  This has the advantage of the NT guys 
knowing the password to add machines to the domain and should be possible 
to use for swat as well.


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