[Samba] Samba groups vs Linux groups.

Jason Long hack3rcon at yahoo.com
Fri May 7 08:56:52 UTC 2021


Hello,
When I use "samba-tool group create "GROUPNAME"" command to create a group, then that is not a normal Linux group?
For example:

# wbinfo -g
MYDOMAIN\cert publishers
MYDOMAIN\ras and ias servers
MYDOMAIN\allowed rodc password replication group
MYDOMAIN\denied rodc password replication group
MYDOMAIN\dnsadmins
MYDOMAIN\enterprise read-only domain controllers
MYDOMAIN\domain admins
MYDOMAIN\domain users
MYDOMAIN\domain guests
MYDOMAIN\domain computers
MYDOMAIN\domain controllers
MYDOMAIN\schema admins
MYDOMAIN\enterprise admins
MYDOMAIN\group policy creator owners
MYDOMAIN\read-only domain controllers
MYDOMAIN\dnsupdateproxy
MYDOMAIN\login2

# getent group
root:x:0:
bin:x:1:
daemon:x:2:
...
user1:x:982:
login:x:1000:user2,user3
user2:x:981:
user3:x:980:


In the output of the "wbinfo -g" command, I can't see "login" group and in the output of the "getent group" command, I can't see "login2" group.

Thanks.



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