CVS update: samba/source/smbd

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Sun Nov 4 11:24:41 EST 2001


Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:07:53AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > So while I understand not wanting to burden NT_USER_TOKEN with unix
> > info, why not NT_UNIX_USER_TOKEN and a function that produces the
> > NT_USER_TOKEN subset when required?
> 
> Because it's extra overhead that's unneeded and complicates the
> interface.
> 
> The NT_USER_TOKEN is a nice simple interface that allows us to
> decouple uid_t/gid_t and SIDS as needed.

But becouse we decouple them, we loose information.  Information we
can't get back (on non-winbind systems at least).  We should *at some
point* keep them both togeather.  I don't care if we produce two
strucures, the NT_USER_TOKEN and a matching SID->UID/SID->GID structure,
but we should keep that information on hand.

Particularly when it provides the groundwork for an important bug-fix.

Andrew Bartlett

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