On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:14:37PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > One of the primary tenants of the 'new SAM' is that it would not attempt > to deal with 'what unix id for that'. This would be left to the 'SMS' > (Sid Mapping System') or SID farm, and probably administered via > winbind. We have had constructive discussion on how 'basic' unix > accounts like 'root' would be handled, and we think this can work. > Accounts not preexisting in unix would be served up via winbind. > > This is an *optional* part, and my preferred end-game. We have a fare > way to go before things like winbind up to it however.
Yeah, winbindd doesn't work on all systems and needs a *lot* of work before we could depend on this. Jeremy.
