On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:05:57AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 10/21/2010 12:42 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:29:41PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>I want admin to be able to access other user data to clean up any > >>messes they have. Kind of standard here at home with my kids getting > >>into challenges and asking for help. Or they did an assignment from > >>the wrong login, and now I have to move it around. More my wife > >>tends to just use my login and access her files. Well I will have to > >>skin this cat another way. Most likely set up some symlinks and ID > >>groups. > >Look into the "admin user" parameter. Anyone coming in as that > >user is mapped to "root", with full priviliges. Just create an > >"admin" user, set "admin user = admin" in the [global] section > >and don't tell anyone else the password :-). > > oow.... That is valuable. And risky. I think I will try it! > > And I ASSuME that "admin user = admin1, admin2 > > works as well? Did a quick google search and did not find anything > on this (sometimes I have to fix things from my wife's login; she is > in the middle of something and needs a bit of help...).
Yes, admin user is a list parameter. Anyone on that list == root. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
