Removing (get|set)-auth-user from wbinfo

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Aug 12 11:05:28 MDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:02:03PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:57:56AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Yes, I don't think you can remove these. They allow
> > a specific user to be set when winbindd authenticates
> > to a DC - for cases where anonymous or machine access
> > is disallowed. There are sites using this (which is
> > why they were added).
> > 
> > We need to find another way to keep this functionality
> > I think.
> 
> Okay, true, that's a valid use case. Maybe move them to our
> kitchen sink "net"?

Yep, that was my thought as well :-). It belongs in 'net',
not wbinfo IMHO.

Jeremy.


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