[Samba] libpam-winbind mkhomedir
Rowland penny
rpenny at samba.org
Tue Jun 1 20:40:25 UTC 2021
On 01/06/2021 21:31, Andrew Walker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 3:53 AM Rowland penny via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
>
> This doesn't affect Linux unless your computers gain a uidNumber
> and congratulations, you appear to have found
> a bug.
>
>
> I believe RID backend, which is being used here, can provide idmapping
> for computer accounts, since it just algorithmically maps IDs to SIDs.
> This can be helpful in some situations IIRC where Windows may attempt
> to authenticate to the samba server using its machine account rather
> than the account of the currently logged in user. I believe some
> backup software does this.
I found this out, I had never thought to run 'getent passwd' with a
computer name, but when I tried it using the 'rid' backend, it worked.
In my opinion it shouldn't, but if it has to, it shouldn't show the
computers primary group as Domain Users.
Rowland
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