On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:48, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew, > > I notice that the default for the passdb backend parameter has been > changed in SAMBA_3_0/HEAD, but the man page has not been updated. > Since it was "passdb backend = .... unixsam" that was breaking > 'smbpasswd -a', I'm wondering is unixsam even useful anymore? > Maybe for a clear text password server....
Unixsam was a useful hack and a bad idea. Most of what it was trying to do it couldn't really do, and will be replaced by idmap. I had wanted all rid->uid translations to go via the passdb. However, we still have to map uid->rid for 'non-existant' accounts, so the fallback code never got removed, and having unixsam just confused things (particularly when we were running winbindd too). It also broke a pile of conventions about the relationship between unix and Samba accounts, as you correctly note. 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
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