[Samba] Re: Need help understanding smbldap-tools and user records

[Markus Schabel]

Jim wrote:
> After investigateing the scripts behaviour a little further I found that 
> the answer is no.  The are not the same.  The smblda-adduser.pl script 
> creates primaryGroupID as gidNumber + (gidNumber * 2) + 1 such that if 
> you add a user who's gidNumber is 1002 you wind up with a primaryGroupID 
> that is 3005.

Sounds fair. That's because samba can't differentiate between a user and
a group, so you calculate the rid with uidNumber*2 and the GroupID with
gidNumber*2+1, so you can differentiate odd/even and never get equal
numbers.

At least I think it is so ;)

regards
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