RFC: Draft 2 of passdb redesign

[Gerald Carter]

"Anders C. Thorsen" wrote:
> 
> Following Garald Carter's example, I'm replying to 
> myself here.

Yes.  I know sometimes I talk to myself.  Doesn't 
both me until I start laughing at my own jokes
(because I know I've heard them before :) )

> The Windows NT SAM db has support for aliases, right?

Don't think so.  You may be thinking of local 
accounts (sometimes referred to as aliases)

> Then samba could make use of these as username 
> mapping, and this way future PDC/BDC replication 
> would be possible.

Don't follow you here.  Samba will know of an NT 
username.  There is no NT username to NT username
mapping.  We will of course, provide UNIX username 
to NT username mapping.  Is this what you mean?



Cheers, jerry
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