[Samba] DM 3.6.25 -> 4.x

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Jun 14 10:27:22 UTC 2018


On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:39:17 +0200
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > Well, seeing as 'compat' is 'files' with extras, you do not need
> > both. see 'man nsswitch.conf'
> > 
> > I would go with:
> > 
> > passwd compat winbind
> > shadow compat
> > group compat winbind
> 
> The gentoo-wiki-entry says "Make sure the /etc/nsswitch.conf file
> contains files entry".
> 

Try reading 'man nsswitch.conf' on your distro, on my distro it
explains all about 'compat'

Perhaps your nsswitch.conf should only use 'files' and not 'compat',
but either way, you shouldn't have both ;-)

Rowland



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