Using s3's winbind into s4

Matthieu Patou mat+Informatique.Samba at matws.net
Mon Jan 25 15:04:12 MST 2010


On 26/01/2010 00:58, Sassy Natan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have no problem with using s3 winbind with s4 alpha 8-10.
> Can u please send the configuration files?
>
>    
The idea is to use s3 winbind code and to dich s4 winbind code.
> I did noticed that getent passwd takes some time, but once it is working it
> is OK.
>
> Did u test to see if wbinfo -u can list the users?
>
> Are u using s4 with rfc2307 ?
>
> Thanks
> Sassy
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Matthieu Patou<
> mat+Informatique.Samba at matws.net<mat%2BInformatique.Samba at matws.net>>wrote:
>
>    
>> Hello all
>>
>> today I discovered that libnss_winbind has some problem with s4's winbind,
>> namely getent passwd didn't return users of the domain, getent group
>> neither. A closer look at the code allow to understand that for the password
>> entries the problems lies in the fact that we do not handle the case
>> more_entries and for the group well it seems that we just have the skeleton
>> for the calls.
>> I talked with kai and he seems not very enclined to work more on s4's
>> winbind as he feels now OK with s3's winbind code and he suggested that s4
>> should use this code as well.
>>
>> The questions are:
>>
>> * is it in the vision for s4 ?
>> * if so how should it be ? a separated process (a la samba3), a separated
>> thread ?
>> * how to include this in the current build system ?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Matthieu.
>>
>>      
>    



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