samba - May 2000 - NIS+

Hi,
The current method of hard coding at compile time which password
database Samba is
to use is a little inconvenient. The same binaries cannot be used for
files/NIS+/LDAP.
An extra samba.conf option eg.
database     files nis+ ldap
could be used to give the databases allowed and the preferred search
order.
If the default was:
database files
then the compile options with_nisplus and with _ldap would give
database files nis+
or
database files ldap
or even
database files nis+ ldap
Of course manual editing of samba.conf could then give any combination!
and any search order.
cheers
Jim

[James Campbell <J.Campbell@bham.ac.uk>]
> The current method of hard coding at compile time which password
> database Samba is to use is a little inconvenient. The same binaries
> cannot be used for files/NIS+/LDAP.
We eagerly await your patch. (:

Peter

James Campbell wrote:
| The current method of hard coding at compile time which password
| database Samba is to use is a little inconvenient. The same binaries
| cannot be used for files/NIS+/LDAP.
| An extra samba.conf option eg.
|	database     files nis+ ldap
|could be used

	This arguably should be part of the Unix system, not
	Samba: so long as Samba calls getpwuid, it shouldn't
	care if that's implemented via /etc/passwd files,
	nis tables or LDAP.

	Having the nis stuff in Samba was, in my opinion,
	a kludge to get around Sun for not having an nsswitch.conf
	in those days. After all, DEC had one...

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