ldapsam:editposix

simo idra at samba.org
Wed Mar 1 23:04:31 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 23:01 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > Hi, Simo!
> > 
> > As already said on irc: I've tested editing posix accounts
> > in ldapsam without any 'add user script' & friends. This
> > looks very good, thanks!
> > 
> > For all who haven't seen this yet, let me advertise Simo's
> > work a bit: If you set 'ldapsam:trusted=yes' and
> > 'ldapsam:editposix=yes' and you run winbind (even on a DC)
> > you can use usrmgr.exe to edit the posix users and groups
> > without any idealx scripts etc.
> > 
> > Extremely cool feature I think, thanks Simo! :-)
> 
> What about adding machine accounts when joining the domain? You'd still 
> need some "add user" script I guess?

Of course not.
The aim of editposix is to let samba directly create posixAccounts and
posixGroups in the ldap tree, and that's true also for workstation
accounts.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
email: idra at samba.org
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