[Samba] Samba configuration issue

[John H Terpstra - Samba Team]

John Drescher wrote:
> 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

Conclusion: Samba is doing exactly what it is being told to do.

Does this resolve the problem?

- John T.