RFC: passdb redesign

[Gerald Carter]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> Yes, you are right.
> At this point I think it is redundant to have user uid 
> and gid in sam_passwd. smbd should check for username 
> and retrieve the RID, check system (getpwnam?) and retrieve 
> the UID and then store in a temporary cache uid<->rid 
> mapping. 

sam_passwd is the uid<->rid mapping cache.  The uid/gid fields
are filled in via a call to getpwnam() after the user_struct is
retreived from the passdb backend.





Cheers, jerry
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