[Samba] Possible to have Email-Adresses as logins?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Oliver Heering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we want to set up a samba-server with an ldap-backend (so far no
> problem, got this running already) but want the users to login to
> workstations using their email-address instead of a "normal"
> login-name.
> 
> I already figured out that i cannot add unix users with an "@" in
> their login neither via "useradd" nor via "smbldap-useradd", so i was
> thinking about some username-mapping ("username map" in smb.conf).
> 
> My question is: is it possible to map for example "me at home.com" to
> some sort of "me_at_home.com" or "me_at_home_com"? And if yes, what
> replacement for the "@" works best?

Yeah.  I think this will work.  Setup an user entry like

dn: ....
mail: foo at domain.com
uid: foo

and then include a username map script which is basically an
`ldapsearch .... "(mail=$1)" uid`

See the smb.conf(5) man page for details.






cheers, jerry
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