samba-tng-alpha-1.0.tar.gz

Seth Vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Mar 18 00:40:52 GMT 2000


> michael!  you are a star.
> 
> ok, this is a known issue with the domain_namemap.c code.
> 
> you _cannot_ have the same username as a groupname or vice-versa on the
> unix side.
> 
> if you do, the lookups from unix names to nt names will fail, because nt
> namespace is expected to be unique, therefore login and access _will_ also
> fail.
> 
> nt namespace uses unique names amongst users, groups, aliases and domains.
> a name is resolved to a SID _and_ a type, therefore must be unique in
> order to do this.
> 
> check your /etc/group and /etc/passwd: make sure that all non-unique names
> are mapped to unique nt names, using the domain user/group/alias/builtin
> map options.
> 

This is going to hit A LOT of people - especially debian and redhat users.
Redhat and debian setup usergroups by default (user and group name are the
same and is the default group for the user) - this will mean A LOT of
munging passwd and group files.
is there anyway around this?
ugh.

-sv




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