[Samba] SID mapping: Samba and SSSD

[Andrew Walker]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 4:45 PM Rowland penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 03/09/2020 21:38, Robert Marcano wrote:
> > On 9/3/20 4:35 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> >> On 03/09/2020 21:15, Robert Marcano via samba wrote:
> >>>
> >>> There is an sssd provided idmapper (on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora) it is
> >>> packaged as sssd-winbind-idmap. IIRC it doesn't reimplement the
> >>> algorithm, just delegate to SSSD the mapping
> >>>
> >> idmap-sss used to be in the Samba tree, but when it is was going to
> >> be removed, red-hat took it into their sssd tree.
> >>
> >> If you are using sssd with Samba >= 4.8.0 it is unsupported by
> >> red-hat and Samba.
> >>
> >> Rowland
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Continue saying you can't run latest Samba release all you wish, it
> > doesn't make it truth. I will continue helping the original post.
>
> I refer you to my other post
>
> Rowland Penny
>
> Samba team member
>

This does make me wonder whether it would be worth adding an optional
non-default parameter to idmap_autorid to have it use the sssd slicing
algorithm to determine ranges. Sort of like SSSD has an autorid
compatibility parameter.