CVS update: samba/source/param

[Gerald Carter]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> well, we came up with a scheme in winbind where if 
> the samba server is going to be authoritative for that 
> unix-group, you do NOT turn round to that samba 
> server (inside winbind) and go and ask it to re-enumerate 
> it back to you!
> 
> i.e.,:
> 
> winbindd_getgrent( ... )
> 
>         ... state->name
> 
>         split_name(state->name, domain_part, username_part)
>         if (strequal(domain_part, global_sam_name) ||
>             strequal(domain_part, "")
>         {
>                 return SKIP_THIS_NAME;
>         }
> 

Luke,

Perhaps I am being naive here, but I think that the getgrent()
loop should be fixed to work with not winbind implementations.
A pure NIS environment should not require installation of winbind.
Or have I misunderstood the purpose of this.



jerry
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