[Pkg-samba-maint] Which idmap_* should we build?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 07:34 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:01:17PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > This week-end, I think we can think about uploading a new release of
> > > the package as the former one will enter testing.
> > 
> > Will this be the 3.0.21b that was just released?
> 
> Hmmm, could be. I actually forgot about the release but, yes, that's
> be better.
> 
> I haven't test any build yet.
> 
> > 
> > > I just eventually planned adding the missing idmap_* modules: we
> > > already ship idmap_rid now...and I think idmap_ad is OK (we have a bug
> > > report for it). Something else to propose?
> > 
> > What is idmap_ad, exactly?
> 
> 
> You want a really franck answer ? I have *no idea*..:-). This is just
> requested in a bug report we have..

AD can helpfully store unix uid and gid information along with all the
other data.  This is a client for that data, and avoids Samba needing to
put it elsewhere.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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