[Samba] Multiple Samba accounts with the rights of a single Unix account?

[Paul Venzke]

On Tue October 14 2008 20:49, Peter Petrov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Peter Petrov <lists at ppetrov.com>:
> >
> >  Is it possible to have a standalone Samba server map different
> >
> >> username/password pairs to a single Unix account?
> >
> > force user/group?
>
> "force user/group" almost works. But smbd still tries to find a matching
> Unix account for each username, failing with errors like this:
>
> [2008/10/15 04:29:42,  0] passdb/pdb_get_set.c:pdb_get_group_sid(210)
>   pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for admin
> [2008/10/15 04:29:42,  1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(562)
>   User admin in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!
>
> Any ideas?

Will a username map file work for what you want?  Look in manual for the 
parameter "username map=" in smb.conf.
-- 
Paul