Winbind mapping without domain qualification

Matthew Mastracci matt at aclaro.com
Thu Apr 17 22:30:13 GMT 2003


I'll take a look at the CVS versions for 3.0 and 2.2.8 and see if it 
would be possible to do this without too much work.

Thanks,
Matt.

Ken Cross wrote:

>In Samba 3.0, it's "winbind use default domain=yes".
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: 
>>samba-technical-bounces+kcross=nssolutions.com at lists.samba.org
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>>[mailto:samba-technical-bounces+kcross=nssolutions.com at lists.s
>>amba.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Mastracci
>>Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:50 PM
>>To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
>>Subject: Winbind mapping without domain qualification
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>>It would be great to have a Winbind mode where the domain part was 
>>lopped off.  In smaller, single-domain shops it is often more 
>>convenient 
>>to log in without the DOMAIN+ prefix (assuming that + is the winbind 
>>separator).  Would it be possible to have a Winbind option 
>>that allowed 
>>an administrator to specify a default domain prefix?  This 
>>could allow 
>>those on the local domain of the Samba box to authenticate using the 
>>shorter form of their username (ie: matt instead of DOMAIN+matt) and 
>>those from other domains could still use the full 
>>OTHERDOMAIN+otheruser 
>>to get in.
>>
>>I could provide a patch, but I'm just testing the waters to 
>>see if there 
>>are any issues that would prevent this from working, or other 
>>objections 
>>from the developer crowd.
>>
>>Sample config:
>>
>>   winbind default domain = SOMEDOMAIN   # set the default domain to 
>>SOMEDOMAIN, ie: assume a prefix of SOMEDOMAIN+ on all users
>>   winbind separator = +
>>   winbind cache time = 10
>>   template shell = /bin/bash
>>   template homedir = /home/users/%U
>>   winbind uid = 10000-20000
>>   winbind gid = 10000-20000
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Matt.
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