[Samba] multiuser with simple user mapping

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 2021-07-01 at 10:41 +0200, Aurélien Aptel via samba wrote:
> Eric Levy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> writes:
> > Is it possible without Kerberos? I investigated it but found no way
> > to
> > provision a deployment in a straightforward way that is suitable
> > for
> > small networks with only a few users. There are few to no resources
> > on
> > the subject not targeted at administrators of networks of many
> > nodes
> > and users. In this case, there are only two nodes and a few users,
> > so
> > it is hoped that there is a relatively simple and easy solution.
> 
> If all the users in all the machines accessing the share in your
> network
> share the the same UID namespace without conflicts, then in that case
> you could use idsfromsid I think. With it, any *new* file created by
> user bob will show up on the share as owned by a special SID that
> contains the UID. And only files created with that mount options
> should
> be listed back with bob uid.
> 
> That being said, if you have the same uid namespace on all machines
> for
> user bob, that means you already have some sort of centralized
> identication server similar to AD and are using winbind or sssd.

That's the problem, he isn't, he is running Samba as a standalone
server, it would be a lot easier if he was running Samba as a Unix
domain member.

Rowland

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