winbind UID, GID assignment

[Andrew Bartlett]

Mike Gerdts wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 07:35, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > The username and domain may not be known at the time a mapping is
> > required.  Thats the easy bit - we might not even know if it is a uid or
> > gid!
> 
> Have you taken a look at the patch that I created?  If not, please take
> a look at http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~gerdts/samba/ and let me know if the
> changes to nsswitch/winbindd_idmap.c address the issue of not knowing
> whether the SID is a user or group (or other..) SID.

The problem is that we may not be able to resolve the SID at this
time.   We can't even assume that the DC is even contactable in some
situtations, let alone that it is alive and responding to requests in a
timely manner.

Andrew Bartlett

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