FW: Swat

[David L Nickel]

-----Original Message-----
From: David L Nickel [mailto:dnickel at aug.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:23 AM
To: Martyn Ranyard
Subject: RE: Swat


Thanks I am about to try that. Did you have to do anything special for that
user to full RWX access to SWAT configuration? Did you use the admin users
option?
Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Martyn Ranyard [mailto:ranyardm at lineone.net]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:17 AM
To: David L Nickel; Samba Mailing List
Subject: Re: Swat


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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Martyn Ranyard