[PATCH] winbind interface to extract SIDs from PAC

simo idra at samba.org
Tue Jul 3 15:26:25 MDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:22 -0600, Christof Schmitt wrote: 
> The attached patches implement a new winbind interface function
> wbcPacToSids. External applications that received a kerberos
> ticket from an ADS can use this function to extract the SIDs from
> the PAC in in the kerberos ticket. This allows external
> applications to retrieve the user ids without reimplementing the
> code for decoding the PAC.

Christof why do you need a Winbindd extension for this ?

We have a library that already allows all this w/o adding intefaces to
winbind that we then have to support for a long time.

Is there a particular reason why you can't link to the appropriate
samba4 libraries ?

Simo.

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