[Samba] Admin UID changed with upgrade to 4.8.2

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Jun 13 06:32:33 UTC 2018


On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:53:30 -0400
Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> In order to get help using a more up-to-date version of Samba, I've
> just upgraded from 4.4.16 to 4.8.2. So far, nothing new seems to be
> broken, but I still have to track down some issues I've been having.
> 
> First off, I notice that something has changed with my
> BUILTIN\administrators ID. before, I had, e.g.:
> 
> > ls -l
> /var/lib/samba/sysvol/hprs.local/policies/\{B78D19CB-914B-48F4-AA63-FD8708A553D7\}/Machine/
> total 16
> drwxrwx--- 3 BUILTIN\administrators users 4096 2014-09-13 03:22
> Microsoft/ -rwxrwx--- 1 root                   users  958 2014-09-13
> 04:01 Registry.po* -rwxrwx--- 1 BUILTIN\administrators users  958
> 2014-09-13 04:01 Registry.pol* drwxrwx--- 4 BUILTIN\administrators
> users 4096 2014-09-13 03:22 Scripts/
> 
> Now, with 4.8.2, doing the same ls gives me:
> 
> > ls -l
> /var/lib/samba/sysvol/hprs.local/policies/\{B78D19CB-914B-48F4-AA63-FD8708A553D7\}/Machine/
> total 16
> drwxrwx--- 3 3000000 users 4096 2014-09-13 03:22 Microsoft/
> -rwxrwx--- 1 root    users  958 2014-09-13 04:01 Registry.po*
> -rwxrwx--- 1 3000000 users  958 2014-09-13 04:01 Registry.pol*
> drwxrwx--- 4 3000000 users 4096 2014-09-13 03:22 Scripts/
> 
> Is this a problem? Why would that user now be missing? What should I
> do about this?
> 
> THX --Mark
> 

3000000 is very probably Administrators, has libnss_winbind etc been
updated ?

Rowland



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