Ahhh.. Always important to include details. Many ways to handle this, first of all, you can override unix permissions with a samba share, and only set the valid users list to any arbitrary samba user. You can also use the username map. You can also add another user with a UID and GID of '0', and that will work as well.
samba example:
[etc]
browseable = no
writeable = yes
delete readonly = yes
path = /etc
only user = yes
force group = root
force user = root
create mode = 644
user = jms
note: this will force user & group permission on changed files to be
root. That is not necessarily desirable. However, for simple cases,
this would be fine and more detailed administration should happen via
Putty, or SSH or whatever.
js
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 20:11, Larry Brown wrote:
> What prompted this line of questioning was the idea that in a closed and
> safe environment one could use this method to set up an alias for root as
> say...administrator. Then one 9x machine could log on as administrator and
> access all of the win2k/nt/Linux boxes through samba with full authority to
> make any changes. Even if there is a way to make an alias, I don't know if
> it would then work via samba as a real user. This was just an idea I wanted
> to explore. The uid and gid idea expressed earlier could apply here, I've
> never tried it.
>
> Larry S. Brown
> Dimension Networks, Inc.
> (727) 723-8388
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