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

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at umdnj.edu
Tue Dec 28 19:35:42 GMT 2004


domain admin and admin user are two different things. Look closely at the 
documentation.

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Jim C. wrote:

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> | root is root (Unix admin, Domain admin). tango is tango (NOT an Unix
> | admin, but Domain admin). Is there a technical necessity of mapping
> | tango to root?
>
> I surmise that in order to properly emulate Windows behavior Samba must
> do some of these things that we *nix guys find pesky. I imagine that the
> only way around this behaviour would probably include coming up with a
> special PAM module and that may be outside the scope of the Samba
> project. Otherwise you are going to need to be able to do root things
> like change passwords, delete users and stuff.
>
>
> Jim C.
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