Long machine names...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > > :-( So smbpasswd have to mangle the name and write it in /etc/passwd ?
> > No - Samba never touches /etc/passwd. You're correct, it's a 
> > sysadmins job.
> 
> I know that samba doesn't touch /etc/passwd, I red the whole code before
> writing patches. 

you're crazy.

 
> > Remember the uid in /etc/passwd must be the same as the
> > uid in smbpasswd. The point of having machine accounts in
> > /etc/passwd is to make sure that uid's (upon which the mapping
> > to rid is done) are unique, across users and machines.
> > 
> > As NT expects this we have to present the same view of
> > the account database.
> 
> Yep. As we can't be 100% sure of non duplicate uid for machine accounts,
> why don't store them in a mangled file, so we are sure nobody will touch
> it ? Just start the uid numbering over 2^32 and count up, this way it
> won't collide with users' uids ?

that is one satisfactory mapping system.  another is to map to +0x100000, 
+0x200000, +0x300000 for user, group and trusted domain rids,
respectively: the OpenNT Posix method.