[Samba] POLL: Does anyone actually use multiple passdb backends on the same server?

Raymond Lillard rlillard at sonic.net
Fri Feb 10 01:04:21 GMT 2006


Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Folks,
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> We are discussing removing the capability to chaining passdb
> backends.  It's a decent idea but overly complicates things
> IMO and unless it has wide spread use, we'll probably axe it
> soon (voting is starting up on the samba-tecnnical ml now).
> 
> To give you an example of what I mean, is anyone using
> something like:
> 
> 	passdb backend = smbpasswd ldapsam
> 
> If you haven't been using this type of configuration, don't
> start now in case is does get removed in the next release.

Kill it.  Never used it.  Never will.

Ray


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