[Samba] Need the ability to edit Samba SIDs.

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Jul 2 10:10:43 UTC 2019


On 02/07/2019 10:31, Zombie Ryushu via samba wrote:
> I have a Samba problem with eGroupware. Samba 4 is screwing with my
>
> eGroupware UIDs causing Havoc. Samba 4 uses the last four Digits of the
> SID rather than the UID Number.

If you are running Samba as an AD DC, then Unix UID != RID (what you are 
referring to as the 'last four Digits')


>   I need to know how to alter my user
> entry SID so that the last four digits of the SID is congruent with the
> UID Numbers of my users.
Do not even think of doing this, it will break AD.
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> To fix this; I need the ability to edit the last digits of the SID. I've
> tried shutting down the Samba server and using ldbmodify, but that isn't
> working. The SiD is in some sort of strange Hash. pdbedit and samba-tool
> gives me the error: ?? - samldb: objectSid must not be specified!
>
> I'm, quickly approaching the need to re-provision my entire Domain,
> because I Have already corrected this stuff in my older OpenLDAP system.
> I'd have to re-run Classic Upgrade. I'd rather not lose all my progress.
> Please help!

Classicupgrade is probably the way to go.

Sounds like you need to tell us just how you are running Samba at the 
moment.

Rowland


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