[PATCH] Remove fstring from wb_acct_info

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Nov 1 10:54:28 UTC 2018


On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:43:03AM +0200, Uri Simchoni via samba-technical wrote:
> We win by not trying to enumerate all groups (or users), using a filter
> instead, and returning at most 1000 entries.
> 
> For the use case of finding a group, even if you can get all groups,
> would you let a user browse through hundreds of thousands of results? Or
> would you offer some search capability? If you do search, then its best
> to go:
> - user types something
> - user stops typing, or clicks "search" button
> - send query with what the user typed as filter. If the query returns
> more than 1000, he should narrow it anyway. Tell him to do so.

We should remove that from core winbind. To get there, what about
streamlining and documenting a "net search" command doing the LDAP
queries?

Volker

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