adding pdb_guest automatically?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 28 00:30:21 GMT 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 01:28, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Andrew,
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> I'm worried about confusion with having to list the guest pdb 
> module.  I think that things like 'passdb backend = ldapsam' 
> will be the source of a lot of bug reports.   We could disable 
> pdb_guest if the 'guest account' was invalid.  

I would be happy with this as soon as we remove the last references to
'guest account' outside the passdb module. (Which we need to do anyway,
or we could get some *very* confused users).

In Samba 3.0, the guest account is determined as much as possible by
being the user with rid 501.

Andrew Bartlett

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