[Samba 4] Usermapping

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Aug 30 06:22:00 GMT 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 08:19 +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I wanted to ask if there are some plans to a better usermapping 
> functionality in SAMBA 4. Today we've only the possibility to specify a 
> POSIX username with the "unixname" attribute in the AD entry. But the 
> POSIX accounts have to be created separately. I'm right or exists there 
> also another approach? Should that be done by winbind at some point? I 
> think that is *very* important for a well working SAMBA 4 installation. 
> Thoughts?

Yes, I hope that winbind will handle providing unix users to the system
in future. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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