On 23 July 2013 14:53, Jonathan Buzzard <jonat...@buzzard.me.uk> wrote:
> Orthogonal is a single word, is precise and describes what is required > exactly. It has been in my vocabulary for approaching 30 years. None > overlapping range is three words and more characters as well. I was not > aware that Newspeak was now a requirement for posting on this list. > OK, so it is in your vocabulary, but it it is not in mine, nor I believe the vast number of the English speaking world. You think that you know what it means, but have a look here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal Your definition is not mentioned. > > > > From what I can see the BUILTIN uids come from windows (and are called > > SID's) and there they are set in stone. > > > > The SID's are set in stone, they have no UID's set in stone. Winbind to > work allocates a UID to them in it's allocatable (usually local) > database. There must be no conflicts between these allocated UID's and > the UID's in the domain, hence the requirement that the ranges given to > winbind be orthogonal. > Well perhaps they should be now, the problem that I see is that RHEL etc uses 0-500 for local users and Debian uses 0-999, so perhaps reserve 1100 - 1200 for the BUILTIN users > > > from the sssd-1.9.0 announcement > > > > - Add a new PAC responder for dealing with cross-realm Kerberos > > trusts > > Well that's relatively new (aka less than a year old). I guess not that > many enterprise distributions will carry it (though RHEL 6.4 does). > ER, isn't RHEL THE enterprise distro? > > What gets me is people claiming that half a dozen lines of configuration > in smb.conf is more complicated than 30+ lines of configuration in an > entirely separate configuration file in addition to several lines in > smb.conf. It might be more performant, it might have fewer bugs etc. but > it is absolutely not simpler to configure. > For me it is a lot easier to configure, I don't have to worry about orthogonal numbers for instance (drat, now you have got me at it ) ;-0 Rowland -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba