Modifying winbind to work over TCP socket - questions

[Richard Sharpe]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Simo Sorce wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 20:18, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > I want to get winbind to work over TCP sockets instead of a UNIX domain
> > > socket (so I could run winbindd on one machine and avoid running it on 
> > > several machines in a cluster).
> > 
> > Hmmm, you know that security info goes over this connection ...
> 
> It may be wiase to use an authenticated SSL tunnel for that connection
> with x509 certificates, stunnel is really handy for this kind of things.
> 
> But a problem could also be speed in some situations.

Yes, that is true ... but it is very handy in a cluster situation.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
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