Winbind's offline state and idmap_ldap

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Feb 18 22:45:01 GMT 2007


On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 04:23:42PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy & Guenther,
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> Did either of your ever test out starting up Winbindd
> in an offline state with an idmap backend other than
> the default tdb?  The reason I'm wondering is that the
> offline design doesn't seem to play well with the idmap
> initialization code.  Am I missing something here?

That's definately true. I don't think it was tested
with other than tdb backends, sorry.

> I'm looking into the current SAMBA_3_0_25 code and
> prior to the idmap interface changes (svn co r21177 SAMBA_3_0_25).
> Specifically look at the call to verify_idpool().  If this
> fails, then the entire idmap_init() call will fail.

We just need to fix this moving forwards I think,
sorry.

Jeremy.


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