Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > See my earlier comments in <20080330015442.gb31...@dario.dodds.net>: > > > I'm fairly indifferent to this patch. I can't see any reason why system > > users should be excluded; adding them to the pdb doesn't give them passwords > > or otherwise permit people to connect as these users, it just makes them > > better visible to Samba - which means that if they do show up in any ACLs on > > shared files, clients will get a more user-friendly display.
Hmmm, really? If system users aren't listed in the tdb, they're still displayed to clients when clients list ACLs. I just tried this on my own system by sharing a simple directory, create a file owned by "ftp" there...and the file owner was properly appearing in the Windows "Security" tab.
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