Default DNS server for Samba 4.0

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Sep 6 17:08:21 MDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 08:17 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 00:05 +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
> > On 2012-09-06 23:52, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > > Indeed.  What I'm thinking is that given we are a DC, we can confirm if
> > > the dns-server account exists (look up the SPN in the samdb), and then
> > > use that account in the way that dlz_bind9 does.  That way, folks can
> > > switch without removing accounts from the directory.
> > 
> > So that would be when setting up the server credentials?
> 
> Yes.

BTW, It looks like the pattern in the dlz code is complicated by needing
to run in bind, so I would suggest just calling
cli_credentials_set_stored_principal instead.

Andrew Bartlett

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