Wrong usage of lp_idmap_backend() value?

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at metzemix.de
Thu Jul 3 05:31:16 GMT 2003


At 18:09 02.07.2003 +0000, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:16:30PM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > In smbd/server.c we are supposed to use value of 'idmap backend' option to
> > initialize idmap but code logic is different: it decides to override
> > everything in 'idmap backend' by 'winbind' unless 'idmap backend' is empty
> > in which case we supply NULL as argument to idmap_init().
>
>It's on purpose. smbd should only talk to winbindd as a
>remote backend. winbindd can talk to the configured backends.

This is very bad!

I think it have to be possible to use
passdb backend = ldapsam
idmap backend = ldap

without using winbind!!!
(I'm using nss_ldap)

I think this is often used by users and I think we should not force 
everyone to run
winbind!



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