[Samba] Samba configuration issue

David Christensen David.Christensen at viveli.com
Fri Jun 26 20:00:59 GMT 2009


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David Christensen wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, David
>> Christensen<David.Christensen at viveli.com> wrote:
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>>> I configured samba to work with an FDS backend using a howto from the
>>> Fedora Directory Server site.  The howto had me create a Administrator
>>> user in LDAP with UID/GID of 0.  Now when anyone logs in as root and do
>>> a whoami it comes back as Administrator.  If I delete the Administrator
>>> user in LDAP samba will break, how do I get around this issue and still
>>> provide samba the access level it needs?
>>>
>> put files first in your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> 
>> passwd:     files ldap
>> shadow:     files ldap
>> group:      files ldap
> 
>> John
> 
> Looks like that is the way my nsswitch.conf is already configured.

 I am attempting to use the username map attribute in smb.conf to map
root=Administrator but its not working, the Administrator account is
still squashing root, do I need to delete the Administrator account from
ldap or modify it in some way?
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