[PATCH] Change winbindd to use the auth subsystem (use winbindd in AD DC)

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Mar 27 01:07:04 MDT 2014


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 05:34:01PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Attached is a patch series to change how winbindd talks to the auth
> subsystem, and to clean up the memory to use talloc properly. 
> 
> The purpose of this is to allow auth_samba4 to provide the services that
> auth_sam is currently providing.  In turn that will eventually allow
> winbindd to be used on the AD DC.

Can you describe to me again what auth_samba4 provides that
can not be provided by winbind going over a local NETLOGON
pipe? This IMHO would be a much cleaner separation of code.

Thanks,

Volker

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