[Samba] samba-tool as non-root

pavel.lisy at gmail.com pavel.lisy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 20:35:38 UTC 2025


On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 20:10 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:56:52 +0100
> PaLi via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I need to run external scripts to manipulate with user/group
> > setting
> > in DC (adding groups and managing members in groups) and I would
> > prefer do it under non-root account.
> > 
> > Is there a recommended way to run samba-tool without a root
> > account?
> > 
> > After default installation there is many files in /var/lib/samba
> > directory with root:root 600 or 644 permissions. 
> > 
> > I suppose I could change them to different group and add group
> > permissions to +rw, but I'm currious if there is any recommended
> > way
> > to solve this. 
> > 
> > Pavel
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yes, do not do it, you will break Samba.
> 
> You do not have to use 'root', you can run samba-tool with sudo and a
> member of Domain Admins.

I see, thanks a lot for quick answer.

Pavel



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