PASSDB: local and domain accounts
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Wed Nov 15 21:41:15 GMT 2000
Simo Sorce wrote:
>
> > ok. Think for a second. Have I ever advocated the removal
> > of Samba's dependence on UNIX uids? Nope. :) btw...that
> > proposal is being discussed on tng-technical right now
> > if anyone is interested.
>
> Excuse me, maybe I was not clear on this point.
> Idon't know english as I wish :(
No. You're fine. :-) No offense intended. Sorry.
> I know uids does not need to be present in passwd to
> be used (passwd and the hole name mapping is only a
> user space thing, kernel and fs understands only uid
> and gid...) what I mean is that you should have system
> passwd and samba passwd always in sync or user managment
> would be difficult. seeing jerry or simo as file owner
> is clear but seeing 26503 and 25063 numeric uids is not!
> :)
I agree completely. That is where I was bringing up the
need for a nss_passdb.so module. It would handle
mapping the uid to a user for getpwuid() calls.
> probably we think the same thing but my english
> makes things difficult, sorry :(
Don't aplogize. No reason for it. I'm glad to
took the time to respond. :-)
> If I understand you propose to use winbind for domain users
> but not for local (stored in passdb).
Yes.
> Also passdb stores users that does not exist on system
> and need free uid. So a samba server that has local
> samba account + domain accounts from a PDC should have
> a free range of uids for local passdb and another one for
> domain users.
This is true if the the passdb and winbind modules
could not use the same name<->uid mapping TDB. I've not been
able to determine whether or not this is possible. Lack
of time so far I'm afraid. :-\
If both the passdb and winbind modules could share a single
TDB for the mapping, then you could ideally only allocate one
block of uids/gids. However, this is not really a big deal
if you have to specify two different blocks.
Cheers, jerry
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