Patch to handle sid compression for consideration ...

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 09:37:56 MDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Simo <simo at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 07:45 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Attached is a cleaned up patch to handle sid compression in master.
>>
>> I have implemented Volker's suggestion to not mess with SID internals
>> and use compose_sid instead.
>>
>> I have also moved things around a bit to fit better into the existing
>> code and not expose too many internal functions.
>>
>> Finally, I added a call to winbindd_pam where needed.
>>
>> This is a first pass at handling SID compression, and if we find we
>> need to handle resource SIDs differently depending on which domain
>> they are in, then the function merge_resource_sids_and_cache can
>> absorb that code.
>>
>> Review please, and if acceptable, please push.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to copy info3 first and then modify the copy ?

Sure, I could do that. What advantage do you see? We actually need the
modified info3 later when we create the token, at least in one path.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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