[PATCH 0/4] Implementing name aliasing in Winbind

[simo]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:22 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> jerry at samba.org wrote:
> > Folks,
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> > This is a set of patches (plus some new work) that I've had in
> > my likewise-open tree for a while.  The patches are against
> > the master branch (formerly against the v3-devel tree).
> > 
> > The basic idea is to add a "username map" like functionality 
> > to Winbind so that you can define name aliases for users
> > and groups.  e.g. the name "jerry" is internally handled
> > as the name "AD\gcarter".  This is a useful means of transitioning
> > local accounts to an AD domain while still honoring local path
> > names like "/var/spool/mail/jerry".  This is also possibly a
> > replacement for the "winbind use default domain" option if
> > implemented in the selected nss_info plugin.
> > 
> > The patchesa re as follows:
> > 
> > 1.  Add name aliasing support
> > 2.  Update existing calling to ws_name_XX to use the new API
> > 3.  Add the idmap_hash plugin from Likewise Open
> > 4.  Implement username aliasing for the idmap_ad plugin
> >     based on the "uid" attribute (as an example for an
> >     existing plugin)
> 
> Sometimes I think get-send-email hates me.  Including all
> four patches here as attachments.

On a general overview patches look good.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <simo at redhat.com>