winbind optimizations
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri Apr 9 15:50:27 GMT 2004
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:22:15PM +0200, Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The attached patch is an attempt to optimize winbind a bit. It does two things:
>
> * Don't ask all DC's upon startup. Therefore I have added the flag
> domain->initialized.
>
> * Lookupnames and lookupsids don't contact the foreign dc but our own.
> With my test I could not lookup a SID or name in ADS mode for a foreign
> domain using LDAP, hence the change to the msrpc routines. Not nice, but
> I don't know how to ask that via LDAP.
RPC is the correct answer here.
> Next should be winbindd_pam_auth & friends. We should be able to ask our own
> DC. But before going there I would like some comment from those with withbind
> knowlege. Is what I'm doing the right path?
The PAM code already talks only to our DC (we can only talk to
netlogon on our DC). Your patch looks good - and Kinkie will
certainly be impressed ;-)
Andrew Barltett
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