Mapping workstation\user to domain\user incorrectly?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Sep 21 16:18:12 GMT 2007


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Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:25:47PM -0700, Steven Danneman wrote:
> 
>> I've traced this behavior to auth/auth.c:make_user_info_map() which
>> purposefully converts the domain with the comment:
>>
>> /* do what win2k does.  Always map unknown domains to our own
>>    and let the "passdb backend" handle unknown users. */
> 
> Yea, that's an old one. I've wanted to change this many
> times to what Windows really does, but nobody wanted that
> change :-)

I thought there was some technical reason why we didn't change it.
Something about we only get one chance to get it right when
authenticating a user....




cheers, jerry
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