[Samba] Rebuid the Corrupt default Group Policy

[Anantha Raghava]

Hello Chris,

Good Morning..

Apologies for delay in replying this mail. I was on leave for a while.

To restore, all that we did was to create a separate Domain Controller 
in which default policies were created. We noted their ownership and 
then copied them to our primary domain controller. Then we changed the 
ownership of policy objects to 3000008:3000008 manually using chown.

When we accessed these policies using Windows RSAT. RSAT reported that 
it needs to change the ACL and we allowed Windows RSAT to change the ACL 
automatically.

That's it. It started working properly.

Then we left the default policies as they were (no changes),  we created 
new policies as needed using Windows RSAT. All ACLs are now proper and 
it is working as expected, normally.

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Thanks & Regards,


Anantha Raghava

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On 14/07/17 12:49 AM, Kris Lou via samba wrote:
> This would be a good HOWTO for the wiki ... can you provide details on
> restoring default policies?
>
>
> Kris Lou
> klou at themusiclink.net
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Anantha Raghava via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Rowland,
>>
>> The bash script you shared does not work. It doesn't reset the ACLs as
>> expected. Finally, I copied the default policies to the Domain Controller
>> SYSVOL folder and manually set the permissions and Windows RSAT accepted
>> those changes and it started working properly.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>>
>> Anantha Raghava
>>
>>
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>> On 07/07/17 2:39 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 05:29:30 +0530
>>> Anantha Raghava via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Marc,
>>>> Hi Anantha,
>>>>> Am 06.07.2017 um 10:02 schrieb Anantha Raghava via samba:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any way we can rebuild corrupt Default Domain Policy and
>>>>>> Default Domain Controller Policy.
>>>>>>
>>>>> What is broken?
>>>>>
>>>> Entire Default Domain and Default Domain Controller Policies along
>>>> with other Polices that we had built are broken.
>>>>
>>> I have written a bash script that should do what you need and I have
>>> attached a copy. I haven't tested it (never had need to), but it
>>> should work, it is just a bash interpretation of the python code used
>>> during provision.
>>> It was written on Devuan (Debian without systemd), so if you are using
>>> some other OS, or have moved sysvol (not a good idea), then you may
>>> need to tweak it.
>>>
>>>
>>>> In windows AD we can use dcgpofix utility to recreate the Default
>>>>>> Domain and Domain Controller Policies. Something similar available
>>>>>> in Samba AD DC?
>>>>>>
>>>>> You can recover the files from your backup and to reset
>>>>> Sysvol/directory ACLs, run
>>>>> # samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset
>>>>>
>>>> I believe, samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset does not function the manner
>>>> in which it is supposed to. I have seen many discussions on this.
>>>>
>>> The problem with sysvolreset isn't so much with the default policies,
>>> it is with any extra policies you might add, this is further compounded
>>> by giving 'Domain Admins' a gidNumber. 'Domain Admins' needs to own
>>> directories in the extra policies added, it cannot do this if it has a
>>> gidNumber, this is because it is then only a group and a group in Unix
>>> cannot own anything.
>>>
>>> In your case, after you have recreated sysvol, I would run sysvolreset,
>>> then add your other policies and then never run sysvolrest again.
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>>>
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