As an alternative, if you set up a UNIX user 'Administrator' group and have them properly configured for your domain you can give THAT out with a different password. Give them a UID of 0 and an invalid shell and you should be good. Of course there are a fair amount of holes that the user could jump through with that, but at least you're not entirely giving out 'root' on the server.

If you are using LDAP and the idealx scripts this is set up for you with the populate script. Otherwise, make sure the SID of the user is <your domain SID>-512 for them to be a proper administrator as far as windows is concerned.

Tilo Lutz wrote:

Hi

I found a patch for Samba 3.0.2 allowing to add hosts as
member of the domain admin group.
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=107938779530259&w=2)

Has anybody seen a patch for Samba 3.0.3? It took a look at
srv_samr_nt.c but I don't think the old patch will fit.

Why doesn't samba allow domain admins to add hosts to a
domain?
I don't want to give the root password to everyone who should
be able to add hosts.
Why I have to be root when adding hosts? Even beeing member of
group root should be enough.

Tilo




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