[Samba] SID mapping: Samba and SSSD

[Rowland penny]

On 04/09/2020 19:02, Gregory Sloop wrote:
> Re: [Samba] SID mapping: Samba and SSSD
>
>
> *Rpvs> On 03/09/2020 22:35, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:20:09PM +0100, Rowland penny via samba 
> wrote:
> >>> On 03/09/2020 22:08, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >>>> Happy to review if you write it :-). Anything that
> >>>> will remove friction moving to/from winbindd/sssd
> >>>> would be good for users !
> >>> And I will be happy to 'NACK' it, we do not need another idmap 
> backend, well
> >>> not unless it it is a total rewrite to give us something like how 
> RID works
> >>> on Windows and is the only idmap backend.
>
> >>> There would be no friction if everyone would accept that using 
> sssd with
> >>> Samba is no longer supported by anyone. Red-Hat could make this 
> more obvious
> >>> by removing sssd-winbind-idmap, their documentation says it use isn't
> >>> supported.
> >> I'm just trying to make users lives happier :-). Why do you
> >> hate happy users Rowland ? :-) :-).
> Rpvs> I do not hate happy users, I just do not see the point to sssd with
> Rpvs> Samba, I actually think they will be happier without sssd
>
> *It really seems to me like we ought to let users decide THEMSELVES, 
> what will make them happy, eh?
> I'll just leave it there.
>
HI Gregory, no one is saying that users of Samba cannot use sssd, it is 
just that nobody will give you support if you do. If you are using Samba 
 >= 4.8.0 with sssd on a Unix domain member, then you are on your own if 
you run into problems, unless you are asking for support to move to winbind.

Rowland