I was in the process of setting up a new Samba 3.5.4 PDC with LDAP
backend, over CentOS 5.5, when I came across a very strange behavior.
After executing the smbladp-populate script, I was trying to grant the
needed privileges to the group Domain Admins in order no to use root
to manage the
This raises the following question:
With the privileges system in place, isn't the use of the username map
= /etc/samba/smbusers somewhat of a historical relic?
Perhaps the username map default should be changed to no value. It
could then be used if needed by some users but the current
