[Samba] question re multiple backends and the 'guest' backend

Josh Kelley joshkel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 02:09:58 GMT 2007


On 4/26/07, J Xu <janix2000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Just wonder if there is any sound reason why this
> feature is dropped, other than maybe making adding
> users/groups/machines comlicated for a PDC
> configuration? Is there any plan to re-enable this
> feature sometime later?

It was decided that multiple passdb backends overly complicated things
and were hardly ever used:
http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=113952596018519&w=2

Josh Kelley


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