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Re: Windows username in get_group_sidlist


On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna 
> 
> Now that get_group_sidlist () knows pw, it would be easy to
> lookup the domain from passwd, instead of using LookupAccountSid.
> This avoids over-the-network lookups for domain users.
> 
> I would actually read passwd by calling extract_nt_dom_user (),
> modifying it to first read the domain from the passwd file, and 
> if that fails, use LookupAccountSid [currently it tries 
> LookupAccountSid first, getting the sid from passwd]. 
> 
> What do you think?

Actually it sounds good.  Do you have a patch?

Corinna

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