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".