On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:55, Ian Clancy wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Samba 3 as a PDC with an Openldap backend and also have a > number of Samba domain member servers that lookup the ldap directory for > their account information. I use ssh to perform various administration > tasks. There is an account called Administrator in the LDAP directory > that has a UID of 0 . However, after nscd has been started, the next > time i login to one of the member servers using the root account my > username is reported as Administrator and not as root as expected. This > causes various issues with ssh keys etc.. > > I have the following lines in my nsswitch.conf file. > > > passwd: files ldap > > shadow: files ldap > > group: files ldap > > grepping the output of 'getent passwd' for x:0: > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > Administrator:x:0:5001:Netbios Domain > > Administrator:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash > > When i stop the nscd service the behaviour of the system returns to normal. > I apologise if this topic is not directly samba related. However, i'm > sure somebody else must have come accross this behaviour.
I wish someone would document that! Oops, maybe it is. Did you check the documentation? http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf If you can't find it in there please let me know so it can get fixed. Defective documentation is such a pain in the neck! Really - it is! - John T. -- John H Terpstra, CTO PrimaStasys Inc. Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
