[PATCH 2/2] WHATSNEW: point out more clear what winbind setups will no longer be supported

Björn Jacke bj at sernet.de
Thu Mar 2 11:06:38 UTC 2017


Signed-off-by: Bjoern Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
---
 WHATSNEW.txt | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 26e933ee..83e9856 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ previously stops showing any supplementary groups. Also, it will show
 in, "id <username>" will correctly show the primary group and
 supplementary group list.
 
+The functionality of retrieving the user group information without the
+user having authenticated first will be reestablished in a future Samba
+release and will work reliably with AD environments that support the S4U
+kerberos extension then.
+
+Administrators that use Winbind in setups where users do NOT
+authenticate themselves with a logon token, like NFS servers that know
+about their users only via Winbind, will NO longer work with Samba 4.6!
+
 vfs_fruit option "fruit:resource" spelling correction
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-- 
2.7.4




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