RFC: Draft 2 of passdb redesign

[Anders C. Thorsen]

Following Garald Carter's example, I'm replying to myself here.

The Windows NT SAM db has support for aliases, right?
Then samba could make use of these as username mapping,
and this way future PDC/BDC replication would be possible.

--Anders

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:42:21PM +0600, Anders C. Thorsen wrote:
> With a large possibility of sounding stupid:
> 
> since the passdb should not have the knowledge of UID/GIDs,
> for mapping purporses. Would it then be an idea of having 
> alias/mapping support, so that one could have a smoother
> way of managing it in systems like LDAP, etc?
> 
> SAM_ACCOUNT* could then contain a different username (unix name)
> than the one provided to pdb_getsampwnam. Am I right?
> 
> --Anders
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:01:37PM -0600, Gerald Carter wrote:
> > Gerald Carter wrote:
> > > 
> > >    /*
> > >       Search Functions :
> > > 
> > >       Each function returns a pointer to a static area
> > >       of memory (one for all functions, not one for each
> > >       function).  This is done for effenciency.  If the
> > >       caller wishes to maintain a copy of the SAM_ACCOUNT
> > >       struct across calls(), it must make of copy of the
> > >       struct returned.
> > >    */
> > >    SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwent ();
> > >    SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwnam (char* username);
> > >    SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwuid (uid_t uid);
> > >    SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwrid (uint32 rid);
> > 
> > 
> > Add 
> > 
> > 	void* pdb_setsampwent();
> > 	void  pdb_endsampwent();
> > 
> > for enumeration purposes.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, jerry
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