CVS update: samba/source/param
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Thu May 4 03:44:29 GMT 2000
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> well, we came up with a scheme in winbind where if
> the samba server is going to be authoritative for that
> unix-group, you do NOT turn round to that samba
> server (inside winbind) and go and ask it to re-enumerate
> it back to you!
>
> i.e.,:
>
> winbindd_getgrent( ... )
>
> ... state->name
>
> split_name(state->name, domain_part, username_part)
> if (strequal(domain_part, global_sam_name) ||
> strequal(domain_part, "")
> {
> return SKIP_THIS_NAME;
> }
>
Luke,
Perhaps I am being naive here, but I think that the getgrent()
loop should be fixed to work with not winbind implementations.
A pure NIS environment should not require installation of winbind.
Or have I misunderstood the purpose of this.
jerry
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