[Samba] bash change from "root@myserver" to "Administrator@myserver"

Norberto Bensa nbensa at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 23:03:35 MDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:28 AM, suphakit at gmx.com<suphakit at gmx.com> wrote:
> Hello Norberto,
>
> Why it change back and forth automatically between root and Administrator ?

sometimes nss reads from /etc/password and sometimes from ldap. I
don't know why.

> Will it lead to any problem in the future?

Maybe.

If you do:

id root
id Administrator

you'll get back uid=0

So who is uid=0, root or administrator? You know they are the same
entity, but machines are too stupid.

Regards,
Norberto


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