[Samba] need of a user root in ldap ?

[Antoine Jacoutot]

Markus Schabel wrote:
> Is this *really* needed if the machine accounts are stored in LDAP? For
> writing /etc/passwd you need to be root, but for writing LDAP you
> usually don't need to be root... You only need to have execute
> permissions for the machine-add script...
> 
> As Andrew said, you have to be domain admin (that means ...-500 as SID),
> but root??

Well, I just tried, but it does not work :(
So it needs root.

Antoine