Progress report
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Feb 26 18:23:35 GMT 1999
> A major drawback is speed. The merger has created an smbpasswd file
> 4000+ lines long, and with 124 unix groups it makes
> authentication/logon procedures happen at a bit slow side.
actually we found that with some unixen the speed was limited by getpwnam
calls not by private/smbpasswd, which is a bit wierd.
>
> I've been trying to implement a mysql database for passdb, but been
> running into problems.
you have??? you implemented a password database api for sql?? you want
us to check it in to the cvs tree for you, so other people can have a
look/see/play?
is it for cvs-main or 2_0? cvs-main would be best.
> Samba suffers a SEGV when a mysql_connect call
> is made within check_oem_password, which happens to be the stuff that
> deals with changing passwords. It works fine in all other places that
> I've noticed.
excellent.
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