[Samba] Samba configuration issue

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:47 PM, John H Terpstra - Samba
Team<jht at samba.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

Oh. Sorry, I am not the OP. And there is no known problem here.

John