mapping uids of file owners to SIDs for AD users

[Ralph Böhme]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:40:19PM +0100, Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:16:55PM +0100, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Björn JACKE wrote:
> > > On 2017-01-25 at 18:49 +0100 Ralph Böhme sent off:
> > > > This looks like it would be very useful and just needs some waf configure and
> > > > build magic to be integrated.
> > > 
> > > I agree, it would be very good to have this upstream (in Samba, where it mainly
> > > belongs).
> > 
> > if noone else does it... currently upgrading my Fedora from 24 to 25 in order to
> > get the needed deps (assuming they are only in 25). As soon as I find the time
> > I'll work out a patch.
> 
> The basic requirement is the libsss_nss_idmap package which contains a
> library with the calls to SSSD and is already available since a couple
> of versions.
> 
> The module in the SSSD tree also uses calls from libsss_idmap to convert
> between different SID representations but they can be replaced by
> suitable calls from a Samba library.
> 
> Please let me know if I can be of any assistance.

we need a manpage. Hint, hint... :)

<https://git.samba.org/?p=slow/samba.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/idmap_sss>

Briefly tested, seems to work.

Cheerio!
-slow