Proposals for idmap backend redesign [was Re: svn commit: samba r16822 - in trunk/source/include: .]

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Sound right to me. Correct separation of mechanism and policy.
> 
>> The cache can be shared by smbd and winbindd thus removing
>> the sid to id cache in lookup_sid.c.  The persistent backend
>> and hence uid/gid allocation is only provided by winbindd.
> 
> Yes - and separate out the request for an id mapping and
> the allocation of a new one. Push that up into the caller
> to make that decsision.

ok.  I think we'll all clear on what needs to be done.

>> Sound reasonable?  I will volunteer to do the initial
>> redesign work if everyone agrees.
> 
> Sounds fine to me. Thanks,

Depending on which one of us gets some free time first :-)





jerry
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