SMB: Files created by users show as root
Issue
- Some users are in the Domain Admins group within the Active Directory domain.
- Files created by these users show
root
as the owner in# ls
output when the share is mounted with thecifsacl
mount option. Administrators@BUILTIN
is shown in theOWNER:
field in# getcifsacl
output.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux SMB client
- Windows SMB server
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