[Samba] Offline logon and NSS...

[Rowland penny]

On 17/10/2019 10:32, Marco Gaiarin via samba wrote:
> Mandi! Rowland penny via samba
>    In chel di` si favelave...
>
>>> Considering a 'full offline' DM client (supposing a portable), there's
>>> a 'winbind permanent nss cache' or a general nss cache (like
>>> nss-updatedb):
>>> 	https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/NSS#Offline_caching_of_NSS_with_nscd
>>> have to be used? Thanks.
>> No, you cannot use winbind with nscd, winbind has its own cache.
> Ah! Citing links without opening it... evidently Debian wiki page get
> changed. I was speaking about nss-updatedb, sorry.
>
> 	https://www.padl.com/OSS/nss_updatedb.html
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> Anyway... i know about winbind cache, but i suppose is non-permanent
> (eg, if i shutdown the system, cache get lost).
Yes, somebody moved the cache to a different directory and it now gets 
wiped every time Samba is restarted, we have a bug report for it:  
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14074
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> There's some way to have 'permanend winbind cache', or someone have
> some positive feedback about winbind/permament offline cache systems
> like nss_updatedb?

Yes, get the cache made permanent again ;-)

I am stuck on 4.8.x until this gets fixed :-(

Rowland