FW: Speed comp. TNG & 2.2.alpha (fwd)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

better to specify the mangling explicitly in domaingroups.map,
domainaliases.map and domainusers.map.

the syntax can be extended to include wildcard matching, if necessary,
although it would be better to auto-generate the .map files with
scripting (perl, whatever).

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote:

> 
> [Andrew Bartlett]
> > RedHat has this 'feature' whereby all users are automatically made
> > members of a private group - eg I (abartlet) have a primary group of
> > 'abartlet', of which nobody else is a member.
> 
> Yes, useful feature; Debian does this by default as well.
> 
> However, I believe at the moment it is incompatible with Samba
> including Samba-TNG.  In the NT world, users and groups (and aliases)
> all share the same namespace, so you can't have name collisions.  Samba
> does not yet deal with this situation gracefully -- although the issue
> has come up before (usual suggestion: groups that collide with users
> can be mangled with a fixed prefix or suffix that is assumed not to
> occur in usernames).
> 
> Peter
> 

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