winbindd GETPWNAM

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Sep 8 20:40:16 GMT 2008


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Herb Lewis wrote:
> I was trying to setup samba to use idmap_ad with the rfc2307
> schema. I had a user that had a primary group of Domain Users
> but I did not give Domain Users a unix GID so instead I just
> assigned a GID number for the user. I noticed that winbindd
> did not retrieve this information for the GETPWNAM call but
> instead tried to do a sid2gid call for the primary group SID.
> 
> I noticed that the idmap_ad module defined a get_nss_info
> function that would have returned the proper information.
> Why doesn't winbindd use that function if defined? I really
> don't understand the purpose of the nss_get_info function.
> What is it's intended use? Is there some documentation on
> it somewhere?

Set "winbind nss info = rfc2307" to pull the primary gid information.
See the man page for details.



jerry
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