Commit my stuff to 3.0?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Oct 13 14:05:01 GMT 2002


Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 15:40, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > Yep, that sounds worthwhile.  We could even just make it a timeout - and
> > finally put gencache to use :-).  (mimir's generalised tdb cache).
> 
> We do **not** need timeouts!
> remember that sid->uid mapping is written in stone, once you have done
> it it cannot be changed _ever_.

Well I've got a funny feeling sombody will change these - and I can
think it would be a really nasty thing to track down for the admin. 
Re-polling the server doesn't cost us much, but this is a minor matter.

> > > But to use ldap as a central storage you have to solve how to handle
> > > foreign or builtin/special SIDs!
> >
> > Well, I was only looking at mapping our own domain - I was thinking the
> > rest should happend via winbind.  However, it does make more sense that
> > this is all handled in one place.  I think we can deal with this.
> 
> if you want it to be fast, better it stay in one place.

Fine by me.

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