logon path and %u

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Nov 21 15:04:21 GMT 2003


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Jonas Olsson wrote:

|> because we avoid getpwnam calls in the net_samlogon()
|> call so all we have is the string of the username and
|> not the uid which is needed for thr %u.
|
| Why do you avoid getpwnam in that context?

It's complicated.  Trust me :-)

| If this behaviour is permanent the Samba HOWTO should
| be changed to reflect this. It says the following in
| chapter 24, Desktop Profile Management:

We'll update the docs.  Thanks.



cheers, jerry
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