samba-tng-alpha-1.0.tar.gz

Mayers, P J p.mayers at ic.ac.uk
Wed Mar 22 15:51:26 GMT 2000


Yep. What about the group "root". Are we expected to change that name as
well? I don't think so.

Cheers,
Phil

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Colby [mailto:kevinc at grainsystems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 3:50 PM
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Subject: Re: samba-tng-alpha-1.0.tar.gz


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> i did that with the entire set of entries in /etc/group.
> this could be done with a script.
> i am considering adding a syntax "*=*_G" to the domainnamenap code.

Since this sort of fix almost seems unavoidably neccessary (_tons_
of existing installations use identical user and group names),
it would be nice to have a way of fixing this at the NT<->unix
name mapping level.  Sure, we can write scripts to mass change
group names, but then you've got dozens of different OSes to
write them for.

A mass map mechanism could be a relatively easy way of accomodating
this without redesigning the NT user/group namespace or requiring
new Samba installations to do mass group name changes.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc at grainsystems.com


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