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Greetings, For whatever reason, the BIND server running on our Samba AD instance changes permissions on /var/lib/samba/private/ldapi and /var/lib/samba/private to root:root, and causes all kinds of trouble. If I change the permissions back to named:root, it works fine. But after about 3 or 4 weeks it will revert back to root:root. How do I prevent this from happening in the future? Thanks.

your permissions are set wrong. I dont know your OS, but this is what i use on debian. read this part of my script and adapt what you need for your OS. for debian user "named" = bind permdir=$(stat -c %a "/var/lib/samba/private") if [ "$permdir" = "755" ]; then echo "/var/lib/samba/private permissions are 755, which is ok." else echo "enable-ing access for bind in /var/lib/samba/private" chmod 755 /var/li...