[Samba] username aliases?

[wes]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM, D Parker <drp at iest.hampshire.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:58:49AM -0800, wes wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to specify aliases for the username, so that a user can
> > choose any 1 of several names to log in with?
> >
> > Like let's say we have my name as a username, "Wesley". But what I if I
> want
> > to be very lazy and only sign in with "wes"? And I would like to have the
> > option of using either. And if I change any attribute of one alias, it's
> all
> > stored in the same place, so it should take effect for the other aliases.
> > So, if I log in as "wesley" and change my password, I should be able to
> log
> > out and log back in as "wes" with the new password I set for "wesley".
>
> Hi Wes,
>
> Check out the "username map" parameter in the smb.conf man page -- it
> should allow you to do exactly what you describe.
>
> Dan
>

Thanks for the tip. I have entered username map=/etc/samba/users.map into
smb.conf, and this is the contents of users.map:

wesley=wes

but, I am unable to log in with "wes" - it gives me the authentication
failed message. I have checked the logs, and it gives the same error as if I
had entered an incorrect username.

I'm sorry, but I failed to mention in my first post that I am using samba as
a domain controller, with ldap integration. Will that break the username map
functionality?

thanks,
-wes