[Samba] winbind mapping depuration

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 01:12, Nahuel Greco wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:50:01 +1100
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 04:24, Nahuel Greco wrote:
> > > Hi, winbind mantains a mapping to UID's and GID's in fixed ranges, but what
> > > happens if that range is fully filled? How I can depure the winbind mapping,
> > > I mean, the users deleted on the PDC (non samba maybe) must be removed from
> > > the winbind mapping, how I can do that? is that functionality implemented?
> > > if not, what do you suggest to me (without using AD)?
> > 
> > You must simply increase the range.  You cannot delete users from the
> > mapping TDB, as they might still own files.  
> > 
> 
> Mm, that isn't an acceptable solution :) because I want to remove the
> mapping of the users that are deleted on the PDC. What kind of libraries
> do you suggest to me to write a simple script that checks the list of users
> on the PDC and removes the ones that are on the tdb mapping but don't have
> any files and aren't on the PDC? 
> 
> There are python (or perl, whatever) libraries available to write tdb files
> and to make that type of queries to the PDC's?

Why do you need to remove the mappings?

Seriously - on NT, the SIDs are never re-used, and unless you have
16-bit uids, you have 2^32 uids to waste before this becomes a problem.

Andrew Bartlett

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