username rewriting option for authentication

[Marc Lanctot]

Hi,

I would liek to add some functionality to samba, but would first like to 
ask the developers if this would be a desired feature-- and if so, how 
to go about it.

A few days ago I wrote to the samba list asking if there was a generic 
way of rewriting usernames a la apache's rewrite engine: a user requests 
username1 which gets mapped to username2 (by samba) and then 
authenticates using username2.

I need this functionality because we are using winbind to authenticate 
Linux machines over an Active Directory server, and we wish to use our 
bindDN's as opposed to our sAMAccountNames.

I'd like to add this functionality to samba/winbind. The proposed method 
for doing this would be like so:

- add an "username rewrite = file" option to smb.conf

where file is a list of rewrite rules of the form:

    "requested_username = auth_username"

and (if the file exists) all requested usernames would first get 
rewritten before they are used to authenticate.

Thanks,
Marc

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