[Samba] sssd not a good idea

vincent at cojot.name vincent at cojot.name
Wed Jun 12 19:35:48 UTC 2019


On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, Rowland penny via samba wrote:

> Vincent, you (and seemingly everybody else) seem to have missed the point, 
> nobody is saying that you cannot use sssd, this is your choice.

Agreed.

> All I have said is that Samba cannot give support for sssd, it doesn't 
> produce it.

Agreed (#2).

> It also looks like red-hat now wants you to use winbind with Samba instead of 
> sssd (if this changes, it will be reported)
>
> If you (or anybody else) wants to use sssd, then do so, just do not expect to 
> get help with it here, because we cannot make any required changes to the 
> code, you will need to ask on the sssd-users mailing list.

yes, that's very clear.

> I personally do not use sssd, though I did several years ago. I stopped using 
> it because I found that I didn't need it, winbind did virtually everything I 
> required, I just needed to use things like sudo-ldap instead of sudo.
>
> Can we please put this sssd discussion to bed, it is going nowhere.

Agreed too.. :) Although I was just trying to clear some confusion, here..

> Rowland

Vincent



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