FW: Swat

[Christian Barth]

As stated priviously on this list: swat uses the normal unix 
authentisation not smbpasswd. You may check your pam-settings. And 
there have been versions of swat that have a RedHat related bug.

Christian
 
> 
> -----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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