[Samba] Root user shows up as "administrator"

Björn JACKE bjacke at SerNet.DE
Tue Feb 16 12:52:22 UTC 2021


On 2021-02-16 at 09:39 +1300 Andrew Bartlett via samba sent off:
> The default idmap.ldb entries give UID 0 (root) to the administrator
> user to ensure it can change all files.  
> 
> I know some other developers disagree about the wisdom of this, but for
> now that is what the code does.

yes, there are many people who thing that Adminstrator should not have
uidNUmber 0 assigned, me too. It can cause issues at several places. What
Andrew refers to is discussed in
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9837

Björn



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