[Samba] Samba-Rights-HOWTO

Farkas Levente lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Wed Jan 26 14:03:25 GMT 2005


Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Farkas Levente wrote:
> |>> As promised, here's some quick docs on how to use
> |>> the privilege model included Samba 3.0.11pre2.
> |>>
> |>>     http://samba.org/~jerry/Samba-Rights-HOWTO
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> |
> | does this also means that the Administrator user no longer
> | need uid=0?  since AFAIK that was the only reason for this.
> | thanks in advance.
> 
> Correct.  The requirement of uid == 0 to join a domain is
> no longer a requirement.  However, the superuser will
> bypass the privilege checks in most cases so root will
> still work.

IHMO it's a very important changes so would be useful to document (and 
highlight in the release notes).

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"



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