On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:31 +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > Package: swat > Version: 3.0.22-1 > Severity: important > > > debian-installer now offers the option to disable the root account and > grant a normal user full sudo priviledges instead. > > With such a setup swat is not usable, since it seems to insist on a > login with username 'root' + root's unix password. > > Extensive googling seems to suggest that swat authenticates against > the samba passwords -- at the moment it does not, but I like the idea.
No, it doesn't, it talks to PAM. > Please provide some way for logging in to swat as admin without having > to have a root account. This would have the added benefit that people > who one don't have to transmit the password in the clear. Currently SWAT avoids requiring config file entries (or the passdb database), as it rewrites them (and it doesn't want bootstrap concerns). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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