Commit my stuff to 3.0?

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 15:13, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> I think idmap is the right place. we should move it from nsswitch to an own 
> directory and make it plugable. (See Roadmap of 3_0: it is needed)

I'm not sure we need it to be pluggable, please explain the benefits.

> And let it map sid -> u/gids and u/gids -> sid.
> 
> Maybe let it hold two contexts:

why??

> 1. for all trusted domains (and our domain if we are a member server)
> uses
> winbind uid =
> winbind gid =
> 
> to export mapping to unix (nss_winbind) and samba
> 
> 2. for our local sam (witch is also the domain sam if we are a DC)
> uses
> idmap uid =
> idmap gid =
> 
> to export mappings to samba (and maybe later also to unix via winbind)

Makes no sense, we need only a single idmap that handles all
sid->[u,g]id [u,g]id->sid, splitting it into pieces is the most wrong
thing we may do.

Simo.

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