[Samba] samba4 and sssd and user mapping

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 04:13:24PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> Yes AD is windows-centric, well it would be, after all it came from
> windows ;-)
> But, windows came up with SFU (this seems to have been re-named
> several times) and I personally think that is the way to go, put all
> the linux info into the RFC2307 attributes and use something to pull
> these. The easiest way (note I do not say the best way) at the
> moment seems to be to use sssd.

If all you want is make use of RFC2307, I'd recommend plain
nss_ldap. Around for ages.

Volker

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