[Samba] Group Managed service account

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Jan 7 09:11:38 UTC 2025


On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 14:38:19 +1300
Jennifer Sutton via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 4/01/25 5:30 am, Stefan Kania via samba wrote:
> > hi to all
> > Can someone explain to me how to set up "Group Managed service
> > account" ? What's in the release notes doesn't tell me much, and
> > NO, I don't want to have to read the source code. A good
> > description of how to set up and use a new function would be
> > helpful.
> > 
> > Stefan
> > 
> 
> This is something we’ve been meaning to clear up with better 
> documentation, for it seems the tools aren’t as intuitive as we 
> (developers) assumed they were. But it will take some time for 
> documentation to be written, assuming we get to that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jennifer (she/her)
> 

If there are no clear instructions on how to use something, then it
will either be used incorrectly with lots of moaning when it doesn't
work, or it will not get used at all.

Andrew had this thing about 'tests' and yes, you need tests, but all
the tests in the world are no good if you do not know how to use a
feature.

Rowland



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