John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:42 PM, John H Terpstra - Samba > Team<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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! >> > > sysserv0 ~ # cat /etc/samba/smbusers > # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ... > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-fs/samba/files/config/smbusers,v > 1.1 2007/09/07 21:07:40 dev-zero Exp $ > root = administrator admin > nobody = guest pcguest smbguest > > John
Conclusion: Samba is doing exactly what it is being told to do. Does this resolve the problem? - John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
