[Samba] AD UID association

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 01:17, Gustavo Papaleo wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>             I'm planning a migration from a Microsoft Exchange 
> Server to Linux+Sendmail+Samba. There are thousands of users in 
> AD that should login via POP3 to receive their messages. It's 
> working perfectly but I'll have to login each user so winbind 
> could create UID association for each one of them (actually 
> I'm doing it with wbinfo -a user%password). Of course I'll 
> try not to reset all the passwords to accomplish this but I 
> can't find a way to do the association stuff without the password.... 
> Is there anyway to do it?

The SID->UID association is created the first time it's needed.  'getent
passwd' is a really fast way to create a lot of them ;-)

Actually, calling wbinfo -a should not create the association at all, so
I'm not sure exactly what you mean.

Andrew Bartlett

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