Unix passdb?

Tom Alsberg alsbergt at cs.huji.ac.il
Wed Aug 20 09:22:11 GMT 2003


On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:09:39AM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:01:19AM +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote regarding Unix passdb:
> > Isn't idmap a system for mapping access, so requests to the server as
> > one account will actually be processed as if it was for another
> > account?
> Idmap is about mapping uid's/gid's to sid's and vice versa. 

Oh...  Well, then it is pretty much what pdb_unixsam was, or isn't it?
I mean, a site which until now used pdb_unixsam, or whatever, should
now use idmap - right?

  Thanks,
  -- Tom

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