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

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Feb 10 15:44:18 GMT 2006


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Mike Rambo wrote:

> I have used 'passdb backend = tdbsam smbpasswd' several times though
> only for the purpose of migrating to a different backend. So long as
> there is another way to migrate from one backend to another I don't
> suppose it would matter.

Migration is a concern.  The current proposal would to use
an intermediate form for dumping one passdb to a file.  And then
importing the dump into another.  Pretyy much the same idea
used by database tools.




cheers, jerry
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