[Samba] Re: domain administrator is always mapped to root

Michael Lueck mlueck at lueckdatasystems.com
Thu Dec 23 19:21:53 GMT 2004


Florian Effenberger wrote:

> I have found out that a domain administrator is always mapped to root in 
> the UNIX filesystem:

Yup, found that as well. It seems to be hard coded behavior in the Samba code. Even though it would make sense to never log in as root, you can not tell Samba root is an invalid user or you will not 
like the results. "Been there, Done that"... documented in the PDF as well.

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

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