[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:50 -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
>> On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk 
>>  > wrote:
>>
>>>> If you have hundreds or thousands of users and hundreds of groups,
>>>> well good luck. It is extremely hard to automate assigning these  
>>>> uids/
>>>> gids and making sure they don't collide with each other or other unix
>>>> systems and doing it by hand is a torture reserved for the ninth
>>>> circle of hell.
>>>>
>>>> If only nss_ldap had a SID->UID/GID mapping like samba has.
>>>>
>>> How about winbind with a ldap backend? winbind creates the uids/gids  
>>> and
>>>  the rest just run nss_ldap?
>>>
>>> I currently use an ldap directory to store the rids but I don't  
>>> remember
>>> if they have been translated to uids/gids or whether the winbind  
>>> modules
>>> do that...
>> I don't know either, but if they do, that would work.
>>
>> Can samba update uid/gidNumbers of existing LDAP directory CNs?
>>
>> I still like the RID mapping, but if samba can write back uidNumbers  
>> based on RID map generated uids that  would solve the problem.
> ----
> In essence, samba knows nothing about writing anything to LDAP but
> normally people would install smbldap-tools (not part of samba) to
> provide a toolset to write to LDAP.

Impossible. winbind certainly knows all about writing to LDAP otherwise 
it won't be a backend database for rid maps and especially for 
maintaining the same rids across boxes (okay, this got solved at a 
higher level and thus an ldap backend is not needed for maintaining 
identical rids across boxes) and I cannot imagine how that would be 
accomplished without knowing anything about writing to ldap.


> 
> If smbldap-tools doesn't do what you want, modify it.
> 

??? What's that? ???