[Samba] Why would nsswitch.conf be needed at all ?

Tim Kelley tim at it.kpt.cc
Thu Jan 20 17:09:40 GMT 2005


On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:47:48PM +0100, Frederic Olivie wrote:

> So, why would samba ever need to control that the system is able to
> do this mapping when everything happens internally (sending a job to
> cups is certainly not a case in which a usernam/uid mapping is
> usefull. It would only be if one chooses to use lprm from a shell
> under one of the domain users) ?

It does if you want users to be able to manipulate their print jobs, no?


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