Long machine names...

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Thu May 21 17:54:55 GMT 1998


On Fri, 22 May 1998, Gerald W. Carter wrote:

> 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.

with private/smbpasswd (without the planned private/samdb code),
definitely.

with other databases (ldap and nis+) then no, i hope that this will
resolve lookups by RID even if the uid <-> RID mapping is non-monotonic.

luke



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