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From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: "Eduardo Sousa" <eduardo.sousa@superig.com.br>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Trusts Relationship - Users map
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 21:00 -0200, Eduardo Sousa wrote:> Sirs,
>
> I am studying about the Samba servers and I am with a doubt.
>
> I have achieved to configure the trust relationship between two servers,
althought I could only log users that would exist in those two domains (trusting
and thrusted).
>
> Observing the logs I have noticed that Samba could not authenticate the
users that were not common, because it could not create a users locally.
>
> Using the chmod a+s at the archive /usr/sbin/useradd I could make that the
user could be created normally.
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this shouldn't be necessary
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Ok I know. But without it, authetication doesn?t works
correctly.>
> My doubts are:
>
> - Why is there the need to create the user in the local domain?
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because the samba developers thought it necessary for samba to work
within the native system of users/privileges
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This is obvious. However it does not clarify me technical. I would like to
better understand about this necessity. Then I will be capable to understand
and to resolve this problem.>
> - Is there any other way I could get to authenticate such users without
having to create them using root (chmod a+s useradd)?
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there is some fairly extensive documentation on usage
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/winbind.html
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Thanks I will try to use this text.
Craig