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

[Collen Blijenberg]

Multiple backends was removed, and is ever since
part of the pdb-sql project at sourceforge

so if you want more that 1 backend, install multi.so from pdb-sql...

Cheers,

Collen

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:05:05PM +0100, J Xu wrote:
>   
>> I am exactly in the situation as Jerome described. I
>> keep most of samba users in an ldap database while
>> still maintain a few users locally. This gave me the
>> flexibility that those users do not depend on ldap.
>>     
>
> Exactly what I wanted to do.
>
> Actually I'm on Debian Sarge and have all my Samba
> users defined locally.
>
> Since three years, every night, a batch script is run which extracts 
> users that were added today to the central LDAP server of the 
> University, with an LDAP filter based on a few criterias, and 
> "duplicate" them on the local system (with a different password 
> though).
>
> To these users who come indirectly (not at the samba level) from 
> LDAP, in fact student accounts, I locally add accounts for people 
> who come maybe 2 or 3 days a year (some professors) and that nobody 
> wants to add to the central LDAP server (which needless to say is 
> not managed by me). So these users are only defined locally.
>
> Now since last September the central LDAP server was modified to 
> include the Samba schema and could (theorically, not tested by me 
> yet) be used from my local Samba PDC directly to grab its user 
> accounts.
>
> I was really happy to learn that, and planned both to upgrade
> my Sarge system to Etch, and use that central LDAP server
> to not have to duplicate accounts every day, all before
> next September.
>
> But I can't do it, since I still need my "2/3 days a year" local user
> accounts, and newer releases of Samba don't allow me to do this
> (if I understand correctly).
>
> So my choice is :
>
>         - Keep Sarge forever.
>         
> or :        
>
>         - Continue this duplication shit.
>         
> or :        
>
>         - Install a local LDAP server which will be a partial
>           replicate of the central one, and to which I'll add
>           my needed local users.
>           
> or :          
>
>         - ? Drop Samba (just joking)
>
> This really sucks especially because at the system level user accounts
> CAN come from different places in a chained configuration with the
> help of /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> Is there any good reason to have made this change ?
> Is there any plan to reintroduce the functionnality at a later date ?
>
> TIA
>
> Jerome Alet
>