[Samba] classicupgrade error: User 'Administrator' does not have SID ending in 500

[Chan Min Wai]

You should just try to change the SID to -500 on the old administrator

and re-run the migrate tool


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Michael Brown <michael at netdirect.ca> wrote:

> Oh Boy.
>
> User 'Administrator' in your existing directory has SID
> S-1-5-21-2070472328-935435760-1634736958-1000, expected it to be
> S-1-5-21-2070472328-935435760-1634736958-500
> ERROR(<class 'samba.provision.ProvisioningError'>): uncaught exception -
> ProvisioningError: User 'Administrator' in your existing directory does not
> have SID ending in -500
>
> It's not all that suprising that there's cleanups to do with this this
> old, old Samba3 domain with an openLDAP backend, created... many years ago.
>
> very old. much cruft. so trouble!
>
> But this one worries me - what should I do about this?
>
> I'm inclined to create an account 'Old Administrator', give him the
> '-1000' SID and change the existing Administrator account to '-500'.
>
> Does this seem like a sensible approach to take?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> M.
>
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