On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Josh Durham wrote: > I hacked winbindd to use 'flat files', such as /etc/passwd and > /etc/group. When winbindd gets a request to map a sid to an uid, it > will now check to see if that account already exists in a flat file. > If it does, it will map the preexisting UID to the SID. It does the > check by seeing if the Windows (user|group)name exists in the > (passwd|group) file. If it doesn't find the account, it will do the > normal dynamic allocation as before.
Thanks Josh. This sounds interesting. I'll look at it once I get finish my work this weekend. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
