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

Michael Lueck mlueck at lueckdatasystems.com
Wed Jan 5 18:58:59 GMT 2005


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:59 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

>Florian Effenberger wrote:
>| Hi Michael,
>|
>|> 2) Anyone who is a Samba Domain Admin will cause things in the log to
>|> equate the user to being the root user. Just how Samba thinks about
>|> things.
>|
>|
>| okay. Any chance to get that "fixed" by the Samba development
>| team? :-)
>
>The admin users option was never meant to control permissions
>for things like adding users on the Samba server, etc...
>So what you have now is behavior by design.   I'm working on
>a new feature that will allow you to define rights for certain
>groups such as 'add computers to domain', 'restart server',
>etc....  I just keep getting sidetracked with other things.

He was noticing that within the Samba logs you can see Samba realize that user
xxx is a domain admin, thus shift to calling user xxx by the userid root. Thus
files saved on the Samba share by a domain admin user show up as root owning
them on the Linux filesystem. Any simple explanation why that behavior is
withing the Samba code?

Thanks!


Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/




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