New approach for winbind to match Windows to UNIX users and back

[Michael Steffens]

Hi Michael,

Michael Fair wrote:
> Oh yes, entirely!  Nothing I mentioned was an attempt
> to put winbind in control of all the UID/GIDs on a system.
> 
> I personally have never used, nor even heard of a system
> that used UID/GIDs 100,000,000 and above.   That's the address
> space that winbind would be using.  Everything below that
> 0 through 99,999,999 would be reserved for the normal system
> (as I mentioned earlier in the post).  But just because I
> haven't encountered doesn't mean it doesn't exist which was
> my primary concern (if the address space is in use, then
> it is not a solution and we'll need to come up with
> something else).

Hmmpf, sorry, sometimes I need to be told things twice
to understand :)

Got it!
Michael