On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 04:25:26PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 27/01/14 16:10, Sumit Bose wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:49:15PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> Hi, there is a bit of a debate going on over on the samba list,
>>> about using sssd or winbind. It is now being said that sssd should
>>> not be used on a file server because sssd cannot do what winbind can
>>> do.
>>>
>>> So here are the questions:
>>> Just what are the differences between using sssd and winbind.
>>> Can sssd be used on a fileserver and if not, why not.
>> We plan to support this setup in the next SSSD release, see e.g.
>>
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1588 . The reason is that samba
>> itself does not only use the PAM and NSS interfaces but call winbindd
>> directly to get additional information which is not available in the
>> other interfaces.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> bye,
>> Sumit
>>
>>> Oh, and we are talking about an AD domain here.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Rowland
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> Thanks for that, but ( there is always a but, isn't there ;-) ) any
> idea when, I know, 'how long is a piece of string?' but ball park?
My plan is to have most of it done by the end of spring (this year,
northern hemisphere :-).