Is there an equivalent to "username map"?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 09:36 -0500, Charles Tryon wrote:
> One of the things I was able to do in Samba3 was to create a "username map"
> which would map our newer login name standard of <first>.<last> to the old
> login name, which tended to be first name, first initial/last name, or
> whatever the admin felt like whenever he added the user...
> 
> I'm running the samba3upgrade tool, and noticed that this map didn't figure
> into the mix.  I wasn't too surprised by that, but when I tried to manually
> enter the <first>.<last> name in as a login name through AD Users and
> Computers, I couldn't seem to get it to work there either.  What am I
> missing???  Is there any convenient way to incorporate this into the
> upgrade, or at least to script it through the samba-tool?

The username map is very flexible, and when processing the 'target' side
of the list, we do not have the 'input' side of the mapping.  So
scripting it would be difficult.

See the userPrincipalName attribute for a way to allow logins under
different names.

Andrew Bartlett

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