[Samba] Moving to AD for idmap backend

Vaughan, Robert J vaughar2 at gdls.com
Mon Nov 28 19:14:44 UTC 2022


> The problem is that you shouldn't overlap domain ranges, which you are 
> going to have to and this will lead to a collision somewhere down the 
> line when a user or group is created at the same time as another and 
> they both get the same ID number (yes it will happen, it is not case of 
> if, it is when).

Rowland, can you please expand on that? You must be talking about a Windows user or group (at the same time?) 

Is this because winbind must create a mapping for every user it sees in AD?  Even those users who are not Samba users and do not have uid specified?

Robert Vaughan


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