Long machine names...

[Gerald W. Carter]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> > > > 2) map all $ accounts to "nobody"
> > > 
> > > So you rely on uid from smbpasswd file to make machines' RID ? What's 
> > > the point to have machines (sorry trusts) accounts in /etc/passwd ?
> > 
> > OK.  I'll bite.  How do you guarentee that the uid in smbpasswd file is
> > unique?  Not trying to restart that old thread, but the general point
> > was that the only way to maintain unique uids in smbpasswd was to base
> > them off of /etc/passwd
> 
> uids are not necessarily unique in /etc/passwd.
> 

I know, but if I remember right, the arguement was 

	The assumption is that accounts in /etc/passwd 
	will have a unique uid.  If you decide to do 
	otherwise, you are on your own.



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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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