From 5f93b2dce4d723466d1d3c94f349179c66d41fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Volker Lendecke Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:45:51 +0000 Subject: Clarify a little Volker (This used to be commit 5b7a2a2441a238896cc3da0459e37536ac1906bf) --- docs/textdocs/GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/textdocs/GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt') diff --git a/docs/textdocs/GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt b/docs/textdocs/GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt index 26ff5cd4cf..6bd29656af 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt @@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ Starting with Samba 3.0 alpha 2, a new group mapping function is available. The current method (likely to change) to manage the groups is a new command called smbgroupedit. -The first immediate reason to use the group mapping on a PDC, is that the -'domain admin group' of smb.conf is now gone. This parameter used to make -administrators the listed users. It was some magic stuff that simply worked but -didn't scale very well for complex setups. +The first immediate reason to use the group mapping on a PDC, is that +the 'domain admin group' of smb.conf is now gone. This parameter was +used to give the listed users local admin rights on their +workstations. It was some magic stuff that simply worked but didn't +scale very well for complex setups. -Let me explain how it works on NT/W2K, to have this magic fades away. +Let me explain how it works on NT/W2K, to have this magic fade away. When installing NT/W2K on a computer, the installer program creates some users and groups. Notably the 'Administrators' group, and gives to that group some privileges like the ability to change the date and time or to kill any process -- cgit