[Samba] Executable 'username map'

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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François Laupretre wrote:

> I am sorry but I don't have a patch and, as I am on 
> holiday out of home from tomorrow, I won't work on it
> before mid-august. And I don't know very well the Samba
> coding practice concerning portability. But, if it
> is not done when I'm back, I send you a patch.

I think I can work this up today before 3.0.20rc1.

> Basically, I would run the command via smbrun(), connected 
> to a pipe(), with anything from stderr going to the smbd log.
> The first line of stdout would contain the result. An empty
> stdout would mean that the username cannot be mapped (like
> for autofs executable maps).

That's exactly what I was thinking.  A good sign that its
an intuitive solution.

> We also have two choices for the 'username map' 
> parameter when 'username map script' is set : either it
> is ignored, or it is parsed after the script, but only
> if the script didn't return anything. Up to you.

I think the script overrides the map.  The two options should
be mutually exclusive.



cheers, jerry

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