[Samba] What's the use of SeDiskOperatorPrivilege?

Matthias Leopold matthias.leopold at meduniwien.ac.at
Wed Jan 27 16:43:38 UTC 2021


Hi,

I seem to be going in circles when trying to understand "administrative 
access" to a share on a domain member fileserver:
What is the use of granting SeDiskOperatorPrivilege to certain groups on 
a fileserver so they can manage share permissions when the recommended 
and default setting for share permissions is "Full control" for 
"Everyone" anyway? This setting is also _needed_ for the Domain 
Administrator to _effectively_ get access to the share when using "!root 
= SAMDOM\Administrator" in "username map".

I'm referring to
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Mapping_the_Domain_Administrator_Account_to_the_Local_root_User
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_Windows_ACLs#Granting_the_SeDiskOperatorPrivilege_Privilege
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_Windows_ACLs#Setting_Share_Permissions_and_ACLs

Please enlighten me.

thx
Matthias



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