tdbsam as default passdb backend in 3.4

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue May 26 18:04:30 GMT 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:14:52AM -0400, simo wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:07 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:05:48PM +0200, Björn Jacke wrote:
> > > I know most people here liked the idea to change the
> > > default for passwd backend to tdbsam for quite a while. I
> > > think 3.4 is a good occasion to make a change like this
> > > finally happen.
> > 
> > Has been discussed before and turned down.
> \
> I didn't see good reasons to, the last time it was turned down for some
> sort of "gut feeling".
> 
> I'd like to know why smbpasswd would be any better/simpler/whatever than
> tdbsam.

I'd also like to make this change, but it's (IMHO) too big
a change to make for 3.4. I think we should make the change
in master, and the next major release after 3.4 will then
have it.

Just my 2 cents.

Jeremy.


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