More proposed passdb changes: users without local unix uids.

David Lee t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk
Wed Jan 9 10:07:04 GMT 2002


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:52:13AM +0000, David Lee wrote:
> > 
> > Regarding Jeremy's proposed 'uid >= 6000 && !getpwnam(name)' adjustment: 
> > Another factor to consider for other large sites: users are added and
> > deleted daily, even hourly.  The 'getpwnam(name)' may give one answer now,
> > and a different one in a hour's time.  This may (or may not) be relevant. 
> 
> Err - no - I didn't suggest that, that was Andrew's original proposal.

Oops.  Sorry for that mis-attribution.

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