[Samba] Samba configuration issue

[David Christensen]

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John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:31 PM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>>
>> does root show up first on this command?
>>
>> getent passwd
>>
>>
> Actually I have:
> 
> sysserv0 ~ # getent passwd | grep x:0:
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> Administrator:x:0:512:Netbios Domain
> Administrator:/home/Administrator:/bin/false
> root:x:0:0:Administrative Account,,,,:/root:/bin/bash
> 
> 
> John

Root does show up first, this is what I have

[root at ldap2 ~]# getent passwd | grep :0:0
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
Administrator:*:0:0:Samba Admin:/root:/bin/bash

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