[PATCH] sam backend parameter

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Thu Oct 3 06:16:01 GMT 2002


On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:06:37PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> The use of multiple backends in passdb has acknowledged issues, and I'm
> not particularly fussed if you feel it should not ship with this
> functionality enabled.  However, please do note that this *is* being
> used at present, and cannot be 'just removed'.  (We map our non-passdb
> users into the system via this method).  Volker has some solutions to
> this issue however, which look very neat.  I'll need to check if they
> actually catch it all the cases.

Well it's not being used really, as it's not in a production
release. We don't make guarentees until it gets into a production
release. What "non-passdb" users are being mapped into the system
via this method ?  Surely as a PDC we need passdb entries for every
user we're exporting ?

Jeremy.



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