PAM and LDAP

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:07:49 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Samba spends much of its day doing getpwnam lookups, even when it does
> not make sense.  Its probably one of those that is failing.  I have
> been
> looking at authentication generally, and PAM in particular for a major
> rewrite - some of which is slowly creeping into the samba tree.  There
> is no reason to do a getpwnam() call for PDC authentications, so
> finding the problematic one shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Sure there is.  You have to generate a RID to fill in the 
NET_USE_INFO struct returned to the client.  RID currently 
are generated from uid's (althought this will eventually be 
changed and the RID will be stored in the passdb).







Cheers, jerry
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