[Samba] root user in smbldap...how to change home

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:20 -0500, David Trask wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally have my profiles problem squared away....
> 
> I've done away with the Administrator user in smbldap-tools by running 
> 
> smbldap-populate -a root
> 
> instead of just plain 
> 
> smbldap-populate
> 
> Thus root is now the samba admin.  BUT....when I run getent passwd my
> system shows the home directory as /home/root instead of /root....how can
> I change this...or better yet how can I have my cake and eat it too in the
> sense that when I set up my Samba/LDAP server that the root user has the
> /root directory as home by default?
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you're the one in control and can write whatever value you want to LDAP.

probably best to do it outside of your mass populate script

Personally, I find it easier for my state of being NOT to have root in
LDAP but have Administrator with uid=0

Craig