[Samba] smbpasswd Question ...

[Christian Barth]

> Greetings ...
> 
>  In the smbpasswd file, does the uid, uid number and password have to
>  match 
> the Linux equivalint?
> 
>  The reason I ask, is that I am hoping that I can have a different
>  password 
> for Samba and Linux, because I don't wish to give out my root password
> for domain joining.

The password does not have to match. But: You can connect to any 
shares as root with the samba password and you then have any rights 
in share. Take care about this and may be use "invalied users = root" 
in the share definitions. You may try [global] as well, but this may 
breack the domain joining.

Christian


> 
>  I once tried to setup a admin account with the same uid number as
>  root but 
> with a different password and remember getting it to work, but I think
> that I had to setup the user name map.
> 
>  Does this pose a security risk?  I am sure it does, but only from a
>  smb 
> point of view, not my Linux box or am I smoking a M$ manual?
> 
> Thanks
> Mailed
> Lee
> 
> 
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