storing our machine account name in secrets.tdb

simo idra at samba.org
Tue Mar 13 19:32:56 GMT 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:32 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:29:31PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > > I want to decouple all operations that need to access our
> > > machine account in one way or the other (auth2, krb
> > > operations, machine pw changes) from global_myname(). Using
> > > global_myname() in these places is just wrong from my point
> > > of view.
> > 
> > uhmm while I agree in principle I wonder how that works on a domain
> > member ..., the client/desktop case is easy.
> 
> What's the difference between a client/desktop and a domain
> member?

Sorry, I was unclear.
By client/desktop I meant a system were only winbindd is running, no
smbd.
By domain member I meant a file server with both smbd and winbindd
running.

The second case requires to make sure smbd and winbindd do not get "out
of sync" wrt the name they use.

Simo.

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