Question about MACHINE.SID

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Scott Mann wrote:

> We're running samba 2.2.2 and the MACHINE.SID file is a separate
> file when winbindd is used. Further, you can change its location,
> albeit not dynamically. This file is stored in the directory
> specified by "sysconfdir" when configure is run to build samba.

Yeah.  You're correct.  I was thinking of the machine trust account file
when running in domain mode security.  I think we talked about moving
MACHINE.SID into the secrets file, but decided not to.  Fuzzy memories.
See passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid() for the details of
what we do.

Thanks for the correction Scott.





cheers, jerry
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