[Samba] what is the SID of the domain administrator?

Josh Kelley joshkel at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 14:40:50 GMT 2005


On 11/17/05, Beast <beast at i6x.org> wrote:
> However, to be a 'true' administrator (ie, able to join a pc to domain),
> you must give them unix uid of 0.

This is no longer the case on recent versions of Samba, since support
for Windows privileges was added in Samba 3.011.  Now, anyone with the
SeMachineAccountPrivilege can add PCs to the domain.  See
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/rights.html.

Josh Kelley


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