[Samba] Static Winbind SID to uid & gid mapping

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Matthew Ridley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Winbind currently allocates uid & gid's on a first found first allocated 
> basis. When new users get added the get tacked on the end seqentially etc
> 
> Forgive me if I'm wrong but couldn't the the last set of digits in the SID 
> be used to generate the unix uid's and gid's

We've already been down there.  Doesn't handle trusted domains for one 
thing.





cheers, jerry
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