Security Identifier (SID) to User Identifier (uid) ResolutionSystem

[Jeremy Allison]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > Ay! I have been looking at Samba 2.0.5a served shares from an NT4 host
> > > since Tuesday, but I never tried using an NT account from a different
> > > domain.
> >
> > It wil work in the same way that an NT server can cope with access from
> > an account from another domain because the Samba server looks at the
> > incoming name, not a SID.
> 
> yes.
> 
> this is something that _really_ bothers me.  i consider it to be
> unacceptable, especially as there are perfectly good schemes to fix this
> problem.

Why does it bother you. It's the same thing that NT
does in this case :-).

Jeremy.

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