LDAP: profilePath and smbHome macro expansion

[Jean Francois Micouleau]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Even so, it would be really nice to be able to keep this functionality
> in some form for some sites - so if anybody as some real suggestions on
> how to implement it (probably by tagging fields as they are modified) I
> would be glad to hear them.  But the solutions *must* be robust, or they
> end up being of no value in any case.

add a bitmask to store which fields are filled or empty.

that's *exactly* what MS did. the unknown3 in a samr_user_info_21 is a
bitfield.

when you do a samr_set_user_info() only the fields tagged are written on
disk.

IIRC, we had this discussion with jerry 2 or 3 weeks ago.

	J.F.