-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Deutschmann wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, you wrote: >>> I'm running as a lone Samba PDC, and -not- >>> using winbindd. >> The RID algorithm in 3.0.23c will potentially impact you. >> Have I already suggested testing the 3.02.3c-gwc patch >> at http://www.samba.org/~jerryy/patches/ ? You might >> want to get the patch and read over the release notes >> at least. > > I've installed it and it seems to work.
Excellent! > I think the problem I was fearing rests on a > misunderstanding. The text said this would affect > "unmapped" SIDs. I took this to mean all SIDs > that I did not explictly map -- which is > everything except the magic privelege > determining groups (ie: Domain Admins, Power Users). > So I was afraid that my users would lose > ownership to all the files they created on > their own harddrives. > > It's now apparent that an entry in smbpasswd > counts as a SID mapping (which just so happens > to match exactly the SIDs that would have > been generated for an unmapped users at > the same unix uid.) Correct. > While no change to the code is needed, the documentation > about the 3.0.23 changes should be updated to clarify > that: Perhaps I should have just said an entry in Samba's passdb. This covers both users and groups. Would that have been better ? cheers, jerry ===================================================================== Samba ------- http://www.samba.org Centeris ----------- http://www.centeris.com "What man is a man who does not make the world better?" --Balian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE9vwrIR7qMdg1EfYRAu4RAKCLuiKJVZc9R4KhnnWP9PJx92o6CACg8wkA ZLWTqKFWPiww/NOON3DE2YI= =G6YQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
