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

Florian Effenberger floeff at arcor.de
Thu Dec 23 20:31:13 GMT 2004


Hi Michael,

> 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.

@Samba team: is this by intense or is this a bug? I find it is a problem 
when you switch from Domain Admin to Domain User, as the unix 
permissions are wrong then... :)

Florian



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