[Samba] Avoiding uid conflicts between rfc2307 user/groups and computers

[Björn JACKE]

On 2018-01-12 at 16:56 +0000 Rowland Penny sent off:
> Surely the authentication of choice would be kerberos and this wouldn't
> require a posix account.

Rowland, you sound very confident, but still that doesn't make it right. The
posix account needs to exist for smbd to be able to switch to the context of
the connecting (computer) user. This is not a matter of the authentication
mechanism.

Björn
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