[Samba] Samba configuration issue
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 20:31:23 GMT 2009
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, David
Christensen<David.Christensen at viveli.com> wrote:
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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?
>
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
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