Re: Winbind - functionality extension needed

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:38:52PM +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> I would like to ask if it would be possible to extend the functionality
> of the winbind and nss_winbind.so to cover other system databases (not
> only passwd and group).
> The trick is, that as of Windows server 2003 R2 or 2008, AD schema
> already contains all necessary rfc2307 attributes needed to store unix
> system databases in AD - so the obvious question would be, if we can use
> winbind & nsswitch.conf and store all databases in Active Directory.

If I'm not completely wrong, winbind does all this. See
"idmap backend = ad" and "winbind nss info = rfc2307".

Volker