[PATCH] Allow winbindd to be run in the AD DC

[Kamen Mazdrashki]

Hi Andrew,


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 16:05 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 15:37 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > My testing is going surprisingly well, and the full branch can be seen
> > > here:
> > >
> > >
> http://git.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ad-dc-winbindd
> > >
> > > Attached is a patch to allow winbindd to be launched just as smbd is,
> by
> > > the samba process.  As well as matching my proposed deployment pattern,
> > > it allows testing by simply changing the smb.conf configuration or
> > > defaults.
> > >
> > > More broadly with this and the other patches I've sent or in the link
> > > above, the passdb_samba_dsdb module is doing the hard work in the
> merged
> > > winbindd, providing access to the users and groups, and most critically
> > > to the idmap database.
> > >
> > > Currently we run the source3 RPC servers, not the source4 servers as
> the
> > > code to use the RPC pipes does not appear to be being invoked from
> > > winbindd.
> > >
> > > Even so, while we don't have a lot of tests for winbind, much of what
> we
> > > do have does pass, and I would be very interested in seeing how this
> > > works for others.
> >
> > Any comments on my patch, my approach or why the named pipe forwarding
> > doesn't work for the winbindd code?
> >
> > It has been long said that making the AD DC use winbindd is a important
> > task and a blocker for some users, so I'm curious to know if anyone else
> > is interested on working with me on this, or at least testing out the
> > WIP branch.
>
> Can I at least have this patch, to allow 'samba' to start winbindd as a
> service reviewed?  It mirrors the approach used for smbd.
>
>
http://git.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=commitdiff;h=8cb7032d32ca60e2cd5e5bb817a0571c90db527e
http://git.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=commitdiff;h=63620e7a0b6c7854329f49d618a29614993dcfd5
http://git.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=commitdiff;h=5bffaf37a806024f76eaca525ef0f1100943341a

^^^ Reviewed-by: Kamen Mazdrashki <kamenim at samba.org>

Rest of the patches I don't quite understand and can't review atm :(

Cheers,
Kamen