Working on LDAP support in HEAD
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Fri May 12 19:01:46 GMT 2000
Inge-Håvard Hunstad wrote:
>
> I have been working on this matter for some time. It
> seems that in my setup, with mandatory profiles and a
> reg hack to delete local profiles, the rid is of no
> importance. I even tried to change the rid of a machine
> in the domain and it still was logging in the users. So
> If you have this setup you can just assign a rid to the user:)
This doesn't sounds right to me....[thinks a bit]...ok
I can see how the machine rid can be unimportant. Have you
tried this with non mandatory profiles. Are you user's sharing a common
mandatory profile?
> My question is: what about those who wants to move from
> a NT server to samba and LDAP? Since you said that they
> use the incremental version, you will get conflicting rids when
> you try the samba uid <-> RID mapping function. As I se
Excellent point. Thanks for bringing it up.
> it you will get in trouble one way or another. So my
> suggestion is that you make a function that checks if
> the rid exists if it does then try to increment and
> se if the new value is in use. Then repeat until we
> find a rid that's not in use.
Hmmm...need to think a little more. Need to checka
few things in the existing code....
Cheers,
jerry
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