[Samba] Samba configuration issue

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:42 PM, John H Terpstra - Samba
Team<jht at samba.org> wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You possibly have a file /etc/samba/smbusers in which there is a mapping
> as follows:
>
> root = administrator
>
> Tell me it's not true!
>

sysserv0 ~ # cat /etc/samba/smbusers
# Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-fs/samba/files/config/smbusers,v
1.1 2007/09/07 21:07:40 dev-zero Exp $
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest

John