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@@ -16,25 +16,6 @@ Common bugs fixed in 3.0.11rc1 include:
structure returned from domain controllers.
-Administrator Domain SID
-------------------------
-
-Please note that when configured as a DC, it is now required
-that an account in the server's passdb backend be set to the
-domain SID of the default Administrator account. To obtain the
-domain SID on a Samba DC, run the following command:
-
-root# net getlocalsid
-SID for domain FOO is: S-1-5-21-4294955119-3368514841-2087710299
-
-You may then assign the Domain Administrator rid to an account
-via pdbedit:
-
-root# pdbedit -U S-1-5-21-4294955119-3368514841-2087710299-500 \
--u root -r
-
-
-
######################################################################
Changes
#######
@@ -42,6 +23,14 @@ Changes
Changes since 3.0.11pre2
------------------------
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
+
+ Parameter Name Action
+ -------------- ------
+ winbind enable local accounts Deprecated
+
+
commits
-------
o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
@@ -61,13 +50,22 @@ o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
* Fix segfault in cups_queue_get().
* Tighten restrictions on changing user passwords when
the connected user possesses the SeMachineAccountPrivilege.
-
+ * Ensure we set NETBIOSNAME.domainname for the long machine name
+ when publishing printers in AD (based on input from Rob Foehl).
+ * Mark 'winbind enable local accounts' as deprecated.
+ * Mark testprns tool as deprecated.
+ * Allow root to grant/revoke privilege assignments.
+ * Correct interaction between user rights and se_access_check() on
+ SAMR objects.
+
o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
* Fix configure.in tests using KRB5_CONFIG variable and krb5-
config utility.
* Require assignment of Administrator SID in the passdb
- backend. No longer default to 'root' or 'admin users' list.
+ backend. Fall back to the default name of 'Administrator' if
+ the lookup fails rather than using the first name in the
+ default 'admin users' list.
* Enhance LDAP failure debug messages.
@@ -114,8 +112,9 @@ LDAP Changes
If "ldap user suffix" or "ldap machine suffix" are defined in
smb.conf, all user-accounts must reside below the user suffix,
-and all machine trust-accounts must be located below the machine
-suffix.
+and all machine and inter-domain trust-accounts must be located
+below the machine suffix. Previous Samba releases would fall
+back to searching the 'ldap suffix' in some cases.
Privilege Model
@@ -131,8 +130,8 @@ SeDiskOperatorPrivilege Manage disk shares
These rights can be assigned to arbitrary users or groups
via the 'net rpc rights grant/revoke' command. More details
-of Samba's privilege implementation will be available in a
-forthcoming HOWTO.
+of Samba's privilege implementation can be found in the
+Samba-HOWTO-Collection.
######################################################################
@@ -156,7 +155,7 @@ o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
* Fixes for libsmbclient to ensure that interrupted system calls
are restarted minus the already expired portion of the timeout
(based on work by Derrell Lipman).
- * More unicode string parsing fixes.
+ * More Unicode string parsing fixes.
* Convert the winreg pipe to use WERROR returns.
* Make all LDAP timeouts consistent (input from Joe Meadows
<jameadows@webopolis.com>).