CVS update: samba/source/utils

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Dec 31 08:55:19 EST 2001


On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Simo Sorce wrote:

> I tought we had changed this policy and voluntary set the uid in the
> samdb ... ... it could be used by "admins who know what they are
> doing"(TM) to set every user with a single uid and the likes in
> future.

We don't use it all.  We were looking up in the samdb by uid, but then
assigning to correct UID via sys_getpwnam().  This check made no real
change in semantics (except less confusing).






chau, jerry
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