Bug 9366 - the "winbind:ignore domains" parameter is undocumented
Summary: the "winbind:ignore domains" parameter is undocumented
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.0
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Samba Documentation QA Contact~
QA Contact: Samba Documentation QA Contact~
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Reported: 2012-11-07 13:27 UTC by David Disseldorp
Modified: 2012-11-07 13:27 UTC (History)
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Description David Disseldorp 2012-11-07 13:27:15 UTC 
I ran into this option on a customer system, the commit entry currently best documents it's usage:

commit 86612b1163d2dae8f707b6a038ad1a361c975973
Author: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 17 15:37:54 2008 +1000

    re-added "winbind:ignore domains" patch

    This option really is essential, as we discover again and again at
    customer sites. Due to bugs in winbind some domains are toxic. When
    you are installing at a site and a particular domain in a complex
    setup causes winbind to segfault or hang then you need a way to
    disable that domain and continue.
    
    In an ideal world winbind could handle arbitrarily complex ADS
    domains, but we are nowhere near that yet. If we ever get to that
    stage then we won't need this option.