[Samba] smbusers and wildcards

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Nov 12 14:46:33 GMT 2003


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Kall, Bruce A. wrote:

| It is my understanding that if you have a wildcard
| in smbusers, it  should only apply this if the
| particular users is not in your /etc/password file.
| Is this true?  It appears like samba is rolling
| down the smbusers file and everything gets mapped
| to my wildcard user.
|
| Eg.
|
| smbusers:
|
| root = administrator admin
| nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
| myunixlogin = mysmblogin
| www-users = *

See the comments about the '!' character in
'username map' in smb.conf(5).


cheers, jerry
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