Winbind changes in 4.6/Change for 4.6.0?

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Fri Mar 3 12:28:22 UTC 2017


On Friday, 3 March 2017 12:12:33 CET Karolin Seeger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we just had some internal discussions about the winbind changes in Samba
> 4.6.0. The removal of the token groups fallback will break exististing
> setups (e.g. domain members where people access files without Samba
> (nfs, ...). There is no workaround!
> 
> What about re-adding this feature cleanly and for local domains only and
> disable it by default?
> 
> Please find attached a patchset from Volker.
> "winbind : ask token groups = yes" would restore the old behaviour.
> (I would prefer a documented parameter, but that could be changed.)
> 
> Unfortunately, it's pretty late in the release process, but since the
> code is disabled by default, it should not be a big deal...

As the results we get from this are either incomplete or incorrect I do not 
have a problem not supporting it at all.


However RB+

 
> The planned release date for the final release still is Tuesday, March 7.
> Some patches have been added sinc rc4, but it seems to be ok to go ahead
> with rc5.

I would like to have https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12582 in 
4.6.0. This is a manpage change and a DEBUG message which prints a deprecation 
warning.

I will have patches later today.



	Andreas

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