[Samba] Executable 'username map'

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:29:36PM +0000, François LAUPRETRE wrote:
>>What do you think about this change ? I can send a patch for it, but it is very 
>>easy to implement with a call to smbrun().
> 
> Hmmmm. How much demand is there for this from others ? I 
> agree it would need another parameter to enable it
> (so it doesn't happen by accident).
> 
> If it's really easy can you send in a patch and let's 
> look at it.

I *really* don't like this.  It's fine for a local hack
and probably a good solution in this case, but this will
bit rot in the tree so fast due to its very specific and
non-intuitive nature.

A better general solution that would apply to more
networks would to allow the username map to be stored
in a directory services such as NIS or LDAP.

If you want a pull based method, just have a cron job
on each server that rebuilds the file every 10 minutes.
No code changes necessary.




cheers, jerry


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