[Samba] Error when running smbldap-useradd.pl -a

[Gerald Carter]

On 9 May 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:

> i mean that these utilities seem to expect all the posix account stuff
> to be in the ldap server already - why don't they just populate all the
> fields they need.

Samba relies on the OS to supply uid's for users.  It's not 
our business to go creating UNIX accounts when you told us 
to make an smbpasswd entry.

Of course, you could extened the perl script very easly :-)













cheers, jerry
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