Why sambaAccount should be an auxiliary object class

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Sun Jun 2 14:42:01 GMT 2002


On Mon, 27 May 2002, Norbert Klasen wrote:

> We at DAASI suggest that "sambaAccount" is redefined (new OID, new name?) 
> as an AUXILIARY object class. For Samba-only repositories, the "account" 
> object class should be used as structural object class just as RFC2307 
> suggests for "posixAccount".

Sounds reasonable.  I'm not going to make this change in 2.2.5
though because it has a high potential of breaking installations.
Keep a watch on HEAD and we will make this update for 3.0.











cheers, jerry
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