[Samba] Winbind troubles

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Wed Jul 24 06:09:44 MDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:59 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 00:49 +0200, steve wrote:
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > For the record, sssd pulls all it's info from AD.
> 
> I never said otherwise.
> 
> >  A user does not need a gidNumber, it is drawn from the
> >  primaryGroupID.For Linux clients it is vital that whatever the
> >  primaryGroupID is contains the gidNumber attribute. sssd does the
> >  rest.
> 
> Hum, according to Rowland it uses the gidNumber in the users DN,

He was correct. I was wrong in assuming that you needed no gidNumber in
the user DN. It is indeed the gidNumber that is used for rfc2307,
exactly as openLDAP.

I apologise for misleading the list before I tested it live.
Cheers,
Steve




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