Defaults for 'profile path' etc to "" in 3.0?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Mar 31 12:11:38 GMT 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 21:55, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> At 13:31 31.03.2003 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
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> >Hi!
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> >Given our 'rich' SAM backends I'd like to ask for your opinion on
> >changing the defaults for 'profile path' and 'logon home' to "" to
> >have workstation-local profiles be the default. NT does this, and we
> >change so much in the PDC anyway. The reason why I'm asking: It has
> >hit me several times now after doing a 'net rpc vampire' for testing
> >purposes that suddenly the users got server-based profiles when before
> >they had local profiles.
> 
> I would say it's ok to change it

I think we should have a ./configure option for it, certainly.  We have
managed to keep option compatibility with 2.2 (even having a
--with-ldapsam that sets the old defaults), so I would oppose changing
the defaults.

Andrew Bartlett 

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