[Samba] Administrator is Root

ryan punt rpunt at good-sam.com
Thu Jan 18 17:39:11 GMT 2007


>> 	After Samba 3.0.14 you can have a normal user account with
>> Domain Administrator powers, which includes adding machines to the
>> domain and other privileges, using 'net groupmap'.
>> 
>> 	So you can an account as the LDAP administrator, another
>> account as your Samba Administrator and your regular root account.
>> It's up to you. ;)
> 
> But don't you need a Samba account with UID=0 to assign privileges 
> in the first place?

	Not anymore. ;)

Is priv assignment limited to accounts whose sambaPrimaryGroupSID has RID 512, or is simply having the account name listed as a member in the group definition enough?

Wow, that was poorly written...

I'm assuming that this guy will be able to assign privs:
# domain admin user
uid: user
sambaPrimaryGroupSid: S-*-512

How about user2?
# domain admins group
cn: dom_adms
sambaSID: S-*-512
memberUID: user2

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