John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, David > Christensen<[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> David Christensen wrote: >>> John Drescher wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, David >>>> Christensen<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>> >>>>> I configured samba to work with an FDS backend using a howto from the >>>>> Fedora Directory Server site. The howto had me create a Administrator >>>>> user in LDAP with UID/GID of 0. Now when anyone logs in as root and do >>>>> a whoami it comes back as Administrator. If I delete the Administrator >>>>> user in LDAP samba will break, how do I get around this issue and still >>>>> provide samba the access level it needs? >>>>> >>>> put files first in your /etc/nsswitch.conf >>>> passwd: files ldap >>>> shadow: files ldap >>>> group: files ldap >>>> John >>> Looks like that is the way my nsswitch.conf is already configured. >> I am attempting to use the username map attribute in smb.conf to map >> root=Administrator but its not working, the Administrator account is >> still squashing root, do I need to delete the Administrator account from >> ldap or modify it in some way? >> > I do not know. I have user Administrator in my ldap but whoami shows root.
You possibly have a file /etc/samba/smbusers in which there is a mapping as follows: root = administrator Tell me it's not true! - John T. > does root show up first on this command? > > getent passwd > > > > John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
