[Samba] Samba configuration issue

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, David
Christensen<David.Christensen at viveli.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>>> put files first in your /etc/nsswitch.conf
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>>> passwd:     files ldap
>>> shadow:     files ldap
>>> group:      files ldap
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>>> John
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>> Looks like that is the way my nsswitch.conf is already configured.
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>  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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I do not know. I have user Administrator in my ldap but whoami shows root.


does root show up first on this command?

getent passwd



John