No nua for Samba-3.0rc1?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Aug 28 17:49:08 GMT 2003


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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> 
> > In Samba-3.0rc1 - what happened to the nua option of some of the
> > passdb backends?  Is it not possible to have machines now without a
> > Unix account?  Is it because of some change in some other parts of
> > Samba or can I add sort of parallel functionality to my own passdb
> > backend?
> 
> Correct. No NUA for Users. NUA still works for machine accounts.

not really John.  The support is the same for both users 
and machine accounts.  Every entity has to have a unix account
retreiveable via getpwnam().

To answer the original question.  the XXX_nua passdb backends 
were all removed.




cheers, jerry
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