make 'ldap trust ids' the default?

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at metzemix.de
Sat Nov 2 13:15:00 GMT 2002


At 18:36 02.11.2002 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>I've just committed a patch that adds a new 'ldap trust ids' smb.conf
>option.
>
>Currently defaulting to off, this option allows pdb_ldap to use the ldap
>server directly to determine if a user 'exists' in unix.
>
>This gives us a performance boost, particularly on enumerations:
>(Removes the extra lookup per record).
>
>The logic is such that if there are no posixAccount attributes for a
>user, we try getpwnam(), it's just that we look in LDAP first.
>
>As such, do people think we should have this by default?
>
>This was a fix to solve some particular problems that metze had, and
>I'll see if I can get some feedback on exactly how much this helps.

Nice patch! I'll test this the next days...



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