winbindd mapping table share?

Gerald Carter
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:44:36 -0000

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 03:52:57 Benoit Friry wrote:
>
> But it seems to me there is one big limitation: each
> Unix client has its own mapping table. The problem is that
> with many Unix clients, each client will map differently
> the association rid-uid, and it is a huge
> problem to share data over NFS!
>
> So my questions are:
> 1) am I wrong? (i hope)

Nope.  You are correct.

> 2) is there a means to share this table? *
>    (via NFS or NIS for instance) or better

Not currently.

> 3) is it possible to have only one winbindd which is
> accessed by all nsswitches and pam?

I'm working on this, but the solution si about 6 months out
right now.





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