FW: Swat

[Martyn Ranyard]

I apologise to the list and those on the list, Thanks for clarifying that 
Christian, I will never again advise anyone to look at smbpasswd when 
dealing with swat.

At 05:23 PM 1/28/02 +0100, Christian Barth wrote:
>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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> > Martyn Ranyard
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