Passdb and smbpasswd (following discussion in TODO list thread)

[Simo Sorce]

Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> Gerald Carter writes:
> 
> [winbind stuff]
> 
> >   for PAMified applications, how hard would it be to
> >   design a TDB used by both Samba and Winbind for
> >   storing user UID/RID mappings.
> 
> Not very hard at all.  In fact having a plugin type extension can
> allow you to do whatever you like as long as you provide a
> uid/gid <-> rid mapping function.  Some examples:
> 
>         - the existing first come first served system
>         - a straight offset based system for those with 32-bit uids
>         - ldap backend
>         - nis+/sql database
>         - anything else you can think of
> 
> > I would opt for the TDB solution as we need many
> > more user attributes stored than smbpasswd is able
> > to handle.
> 
> The smbpassword file is an obvious candidate to be tdb'ified.
> (-:
> 
> Tim.

What about XMLify smbpasswd to let admin poke with it?
A procedure to load/dump smbpasswd tdb from/to smbpasswd.xml may do the
rest!


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