CVS update: samba/source/msrpc (fwd)

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at wdr.com
Fri Jan 21 20:35:20 GMT 2000


On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:25:55PM -0500, Cole, Timothy D. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Nicolas Williams [SMTP:Nicolas.Williams at wdr.com]
> > Sent:	Friday, January 21, 2000 12:31
> > To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> > Subject:	Re: CVS update: samba/source/msrpc (fwd)
> > 
> >  - SMBD should also maintain tdb records indexed by
> > 
> >    <PID, client name, share name, user name>
> > 
> >    tuples. The record should contain various information, including
> >    standard_sub_basic substitutions.
> > 
> 	Well, it should probably be an SID, at least for the user...
> 

How could that be? SMB does not use SIDs. Granted, SMBD itself could use
DCE/RPC calls to resolve usernames to SIDs, but then you'd have a
chicken-before-the-egg kind of problem.

Nico
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