Multiple instances of winbindd

[Kenneth MacDonald]

>>>>> "Sridhar" == Sridhar Venkatakrishnan <sridhar.venkatakrishnan at trilogy.com> writes:

    Sridhar> Hi, I was trying to consolidate multiple samba servers
    Sridhar> onto a single box and so was looking at ways of running
    Sridhar> multiple instances of winbindd ( one for each server )
    Sridhar> because I want use the nested groups ability built into
    Sridhar> winbindd. I was thinking of adding options to selectively
    Sridhar> enumerate users and groups so that only one instance of
    Sridhar> winbindd would enumerate domain users while the others
    Sridhar> would enumerate only their local groups. I though I'd ask
    Sridhar> the developer community whether this is the right way to
    Sridhar> go. I'm planning to try and implement this in the next
    Sridhar> few days and would appreciate any help.

I've had a request from a local computing officer for winbind to only
enumerate computer accounts.  Sounds like similar functionality to
what you're proposing.

Has anyone an opinion on whether a (hopefully small) patchset to
implement this would be appropriate?

Cheers,

Kenny.

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