Uid->Sid and Sid->Uid mapping

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Jan 10 21:42:22 GMT 2006


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Christoph Klein wrote:

> this happens, because uid->sid conversion don't arrive at the idmap_ad
> backend: If theres no mapping cached, i.e a sid->uid conv happened
> before, winbind stops. idmap_sid_to_uid is called with ID_CACHE_ONLY 
> in  winbindd_sid_to_uid in nsswitch/winbindd_sid.c This has possibly
> several implication, the one i know is the following:
> Samba doesnt show the right owner when lookup the secdesc of a file. The
> owner is then SERVER\USER instead of DOMAIN\USER.

There's already a patch in bugzilla to fix this that's on my
list to review and check in.  I can't remember thr bug # roght
now though.  (is it your patch?)





cheers, jerry
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