> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix- > us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of zhong ming wu > Sent: 16 August 2010 12:02 > To: Postfix users > Subject: Re: Active Directory and virtual delivery agent > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Aaron Roberts > <arobe...@domicilium.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a bit of inspiration... > > > > I have a number of linux boxes using winbind to provide UNIX system > users from a Win2008R2 Active Directory domain. I'm using winbind's > RID idmap backend thing to provide consistent UNIX UIDs and GIDs across > multiple servers. For non-windows people, the RID is a 32 bit integer > which uniquely identifies an object in a domain, and forms the right- > most part of the Active Directory forest-wide SID. > > > > A SID looks like: > > S-1-5-21-993118751-601841214-1674189692-1134 > > > > The RID, in the above case, is 1134. > > > > My UNIX UIDs are always (RID + 1000). > > I always thought unix uid (or at leaset linux) is unsigned short; > won't you run into problem at one point with this?
I understand that linux, since 2.4, supports 32 bit UIDs. Aaron
