status of unixsam and guest passdb backends?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:48, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Andrew,
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> I notice that the default for the passdb backend parameter has been 
> changed in SAMBA_3_0/HEAD, but the man page has not been updated.
> Since it was "passdb backend = .... unixsam" that was breaking 
> 'smbpasswd -a', I'm wondering is unixsam even useful anymore?
> Maybe for a clear text password server....

Unixsam was a useful hack and a bad idea.  Most of what it was trying to
do it couldn't really do, and will be replaced by idmap.  I had wanted
all rid->uid translations to go via the passdb.  However, we still have
to map uid->rid for 'non-existant' accounts, so the fallback code never
got removed, and having unixsam just confused things (particularly when
we were running winbindd too).

It also broke a pile of conventions about the relationship between unix
and Samba accounts, as you correctly note.

Andrew Bartlett

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