[Samba] winbind idmap customization

simo idra at samba.org
Fri Jul 6 19:46:18 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:40 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jerome Haltom wrote:
> > Would it be much work to add some sort of format string policy to
> > smb.conf to govern this mapping?
> > 
> > winbind user name = %U@%D
> > winbind group name = %G@%D
> > 
> > This would ideally allow lookups for all of the various 
> > possibilities to resolve to the single canonical name.
> 
> Yup.  It would be a huge amount of work with no benefit
> IMO.

It would also make the code a lot more fragile imo, we have already been
bitten by the winbind separator and winbind use default domain to allow
madness slip in again. Not unless it is really really necessary.

Simo.

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