RFC: Username mapping for HEAD
Simo Sorce
idra at samba.org
Fri Sep 14 00:16:02 GMT 2001
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:11:44PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Tim Potter wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett writes:
> >
> > > I'm thinking about having 3 usernames inside samba:
> > > username_wire - the username exactly as specified on the wire
> > > username_mapped - this username after it has been mapped on a global
> > > basis (username map = )
> > > username_unix - the username that is actually used on the unix system
> >
> > What is the difference between username_unix and username_mapped?
> >
> > Tim.
>
> username_unix is the uid used when doing disk-work, but might be mapped
> itself from many different usernames in the password database. Make
> sense?
>
So, is it an uid? or is it a name?
I can't see the benefit of this parameter.
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