[Samba] Access to s3 shares when userPrincipalName differs from the sAMAccountName

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:49:15PM -0800, Gerald Carter wrote:
> Just based on experience....
> 
> My suggestion would to use the DOMAIN\sAMAccountName version
> as the canonical representation but allow the UPN in a "getent
> passwd <upn>" as an alias.  For example,
> 
> $ getent passwd ad\\gcarter
> AD\gcarter:x:181931072:181928449:Gerald Carter:/home/gcarter:/bin/sh
> 
> $ getent passwd gerald.carter at ad
> AD\gcarter:x:181931072:181928449:Gerald Carter:/home/gcarter:/bin/sh
> 
> $ getent passwd 181931072
> AD\gcarter:x:181931072:181928449:Gerald Carter:/home/gcarter:/bin/sh

Thanks! That sounds very reasonable.

Volker

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