samba-tng-alpha-1.0.tar.gz

Michael Breuer mbreuer at siac.com
Mon Mar 20 14:50:08 GMT 2000


Irix needs some non-unique entries... how about a short-term fix... allow specification of a non-default /etc/passwd & /etc/group
(kinda like public ftp)?

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> 2) option 2 - add checking into domain_namemap.c
>
> verify that a name that maps to both a unix name _and_ a unix group, the
> unix name takes precedence.
>
> this is nasty as hell, because let's say someone tries to create a file
> with a unix group root, are you going to reject the file create because
> there is also a username root????
>
> answer: YES!  with a damn big warning in the log files saying hey, stupid,
> map the unix group "root" to something that doesn't clash with the
> username "root", because i said so, don't argue, just do it.



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