[Samba] Power Users

John H Terpstra
Thu, 26 May 2005 03:54:54 -0000

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 21:39, tom burkart wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> Just wondering if anyone had worked out how to assign a user as a Power
> User in domain context?
>
> I have tried:
> (1) setting the primary group SID to S-1-5-32-547 for that user
> (2) created a power users' group with the above SID with the user as a
> member.
>
> Setting the primary group SID to the admin group (RID 512) works but is an
> extremely non-preferred option.
>
> This is in a samba server/win2k workstation environment.

Please refer to "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" (aka
Samba-HOWTO-Collection) Chapter 12, Section 12.3.2.

You may obtain the current version (rebuilt every 24 hours) of this book from:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

This reference means you can add any domain user or domain group to be a
member of the local "Power Users" group on any workstation by
executing:

net rpc group addmem "Power Users" "MYDOMAIN\Engineers"
-UAdministrator%password -SWINWRKSTN

Cheers,
John T.