[Samba] nscd, ldap and the root/Administrator account

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 05:40, Ian Clancy wrote:
> >    It
> >doesn't really support multiple accounts with the same uidnumber, id
> >suggest not having a Administration;uidnumber=0 account.  Simply map
> >Administrator = root in Samba if this is the behaviour you want.
>
> I'm not sure how to map Administrator = root. Sounds like a good idea. I
> will have to look into this.

In smb.conf [global]:
	usermap file = /etc/samba/smbusers


In /etc/samba/smbusers:

Administrator = root

- John T.

> >>I have the following lines in my nsswitch.conf file.
> >>
> >>>passwd:     files ldap
> >>>shadow:     files ldap
> >>>group:      files ldap
> >>
> >>grepping the output of 'getent passwd' for x:0:
> >>>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> >>>Administrator:x:0:5001:Netbios Domain
> >>>Administrator:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> >>
> >>When i stop the nscd service the behaviour of the system returns to
> >
> >normal.
> >
> >>I apologise if this topic is not directly samba related. However, i'm
> >>sure somebody else must have come accross this behaviour.
> >
> >nscd is just a dumb cache,  you're getting the results of a uidnumber=0
> >lookup into its cache.
>
> Thanks for your reply
>
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