Tim Potter wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:24:43PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > > This patch removes WINBINDD_DOMAIN, and some of the misguided (and > > fruitless) attempts to prevent winbind from calling smbd recursivly. (I > > fixed that the 'proper' way, and the worst case is a pipe timeout of 30 > > sec, not a lockup). > > > > (For reference, WINBINDD_DOMAIN allows the user to specify what domains > > winbind will return entries in - instead of all trusted domains) > > You haven't replaced it with anything. I think being able to exclude > domains is useful, especially if you are in a large network of trusted > domains and for some reason aren't interested in other remote domains.
Except that this doesn't actually work properly. As the code stands, it only applies to get*ent(), and not to all other queries. > > This does not remove the _NO_WINBIND variable (yet), but I'm looking at > > a 'getpid()' based replacement to prevent recursion and lockups on that > > one. > > This is also useful, especially for debugging after you have locked up > your system with winbindd and have to run 'killall -9 winbindd'. (-: Hmm, thats an interesting point. I can prevent winbind locking itself up, but this one is harder to do without this kind of thing... > > So, what do people think? (Naturally, I'll also remove the manpage > > reference in a final patch). > > As I mentioned I think the functionality should stay, even if it isn't > implemented using environment variables. Hmm, I suppose... ;-) Time for another smb.conf paramater Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net