Discussion from bug # 4088

[simo]

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 20:19 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Carrying a discussion from bugzilla to where it belongs :-)
> 
> I've got one further comment: I've looked at all the places
> where pdb_get_account_policy is being called. The only one
> which is not a write operation is the bad password stuff. So
> for normal operation we don't fetch account policies. 
> 
> So I would be surprised we would slow down considerably if
> we don't cache them.

I am for changing it to be consistent with users and groups.
Use ldap if that's configured in smb.conf without fancy checking in
tdbsam. The way it is now is imho too much confusing to the casual
administrator.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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