[Samba] allow trusted domains

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Mar 3 02:43:42 MST 2012


On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 14:07 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> As written in http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html
> 
> 	"Where winbindd is not used Samba (smbd) uses the underlying
> 	UNIX/Linux mechanisms to resolve the identity of incoming network
> 	traffic. This is done using the LoginID (account name) in the session
> 	setup request and passing it to the getpwnam() system function call.
> 	This call is implemented using the name service switch (NSS) mechanism
> 	on modern UNIX/Linux systems. By saying "users and groups are local,"
> 	we are implying that they are stored only on the local system, in the
> 	/etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively.
> 
> 	For example, when the user BERYLIUM\WambatW tries to open a connection
> 	to a Samba server the incoming SessionSetupAndX request will make a
> 	system call to look up the user WambatW in the /etc/passwd file. "
> 
> My question: if BERYLIUM trusts ANOTHERDOMAIN, and
> ANOTHERDOMAIN\WambatW tries to open a connection to my Samba server,
> what user will be looked up in /etc/passwd?

It should be:
ANOTHERDOMAIN\WambatW

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org



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