[Samba] id mapping

[Patrick Goetz]

Hi -

On 9/20/21 09:51, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> Am 20.09.21 um 16:42 schrieb Patrick Goetz via samba:
>> Now it looks like I'm going to have to rethink the entire system 
>> architecture if I want to upgrade the file server from Ubuntu 18.04 to 
>> anything newer?  (Ubuntu 20.04 ships 4.11.6).  This is going to be a 
>> problem, as all the files are related to the UIDs and GIDs generated 
>> by sssd. I'm not sure that's realistic in a very active research 
>> environment. The solution is likely going to involve virtualizing all 
>> the Windows machines and using IOMMU to provide a PCIe passthrough for 
>> whatever GPU's they need for processing.
> 
> sorry, tl;dr, at least not fully, but still wanted to mention...
> 
>> Any thoughts on this appreciated.
> 
> ...you could try to use the idmap sss backend. Unfortunately it's not 
> included in upstream Samba and therefor not available on Ubuntu. Otho 
> RHEL Samba ships it, if that helps.
> 
> Alternatively you could build Samba packages from source and include the 
> necessary patches, I have a WIP branch here:
> 
> <https://git.samba.org/?p=slow/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/idmap_sss>
> 

I'm a bit confused about what this branch does; i.e. if it's just to 
facilitate the use of idmap_sss, then why are patches needed? Aren't 
people currently using idmap_sss with Samba, or is that only because 
Redhat is patching Samba downstream and it doesn't work at all with 
Ubuntu systems even when sss is installed?

I've read there's a memory leak in 4.11 anyway, and some people are 
recommending the source: http://apt.van-belle.nl/
as an alternative to the distro Samba packages available on Debian/Ubuntu.


> Cheers!
> -slow
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