topic Re: SWAT privelege in Operating System - Linux

SWAT privelege

ricky2 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:47:31 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have configured samba and swat successfully on RedHat Enterprise and working well.
I have a sudo superuser access and I login into the server as root by sudo.
Now I want to modify the samba shares using SWAT but as I dont have the root password Iam not able to do it.
Is there any option where I can provide this special privilege to my login to modify the samba shares using SWAT as how root can do?
Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Ricky

Re: SWAT privelege

Luk Vandenbussche — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:08:19 GMT

Hi,

Start swat with option -a

The swat man pages says

- a
This option disables authentication and puts swat in demo mode. In that mode anyone will be able to modify the smb.conf file.

WARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server.

Re: SWAT privelege

ricky2 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:34:31 GMT

Hi Luk,

Thanks for the info,I allready tried with this option but it doesnt work.
Anything more?

Rgds,
Ricky

Re: SWAT privelege

Peter Godron — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:51:34 GMT

Ricky,
sampublishing "Using SWAT for Web-based Samba configuration" says you need to log in as root to have full access. All other accounts only get a subset of options.
Hope i'll get proven wrong!

Re: SWAT privelege

ricky2 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:15:17 GMT

Hi Peter,

To some extent I feel you are right...just want to check if there is any other way to provide this special privelege to one user other than root.

Regards,
Ricky