[Samba] add machine script

[Tom Van Overschelde]

Hello Michel,

I think your script does only have to contain the line

/usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 2001 -s /bin/false $1

because Samba creates the 'samba part' of your useraccount by himself. So
what you do is

1) create the unix user

2) create the samba user part

and samba tries to add the samba user again. The samba part already exist
what results in a permission denied status.

This was my experience with the samba 'add user' and 'add machine script'
and the logs confirmed my suspections, and I found that the docs were not
clear enough about this. This behaviour is probably different from the 2.2.x
version.

maybe this helps you...

Tom Van Overschelde



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Gallant" <support at mindsweep.ca>
To: <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: [Samba] add machine script


> I'm using samba 3.0 alpha 23 on debian woody using a tdb backend.  I've
written a simple add machine script that takes care of the useradd and
pdbedit -a -m steps.  When I try to add a machine to the domain directly
from that machine, without creating the accounts beforehand, I get an
"Access Denied" error.  After getting this error, I check on the samba
machine and see that the account has been created in both /etc/passwd and my
passwd.tdb file.  If I try to join the machine to the domain again right
away, it's successfull.  Do I have to return something from my script?
Here's the simple batch file I'm using:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 2001 -s /bin/false $1
> /usr/bin/pdbedit -a -m $1
> /usr/bin/pdbedit -f 'Machine Account' -h '' -D '' $1
>
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