On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 20:18, Pirkka Luukkonen wrote:> Hi!
>
> How can I maintain users old NT RIDs while migrating to Samba PDC when they
> start from 1000. The RID to UID conversion algorithm is RID = 2 * UID +
1000
> so the user with RID of 1000 would be root (0 * 2 + 1000 = 1000) on Unix.
> Maintaining the old RIDs is essential for migrating on-the-fly, because
> re-adding hundreds of computers to domain and losing local user profiles is
> not an option.
Samba will first try to match names to SIDs via getpwnam().
If you are concerned by the algorithmic assignment of SIDs conflicting
with the NT4 sids, then you might want to use 'algorithmic rid base
<large number>' to 'push' the algorithmic RIDs higher.
Andrew Bartlett
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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net
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