[Samba] domain-free multi-user use cases

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Oct 24 08:03:04 UTC 2021


On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 03:37 -0400, Eric Levy via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 20:35 +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 03:23 -0400, Eric Levy via samba wrote:
> > > Right, so coming full circle to my opening comments, we have a
> > > case
> > > that is not supported internally by Samba, and I wish to inquire
> > > about
> > > enthusiasm for keeping open any possibility for considering such
> > > support in future development.
> > 
> > I don't have any enthusiasm for host-based (rather than user based)
> > authentication, if that is what you mean, but do suggest a way,
> > without
> > changing Samba, that you could achive your goal.
> > 
> > Other remote file systems may offer host-based authentication.
> > 
> > Andrew,
> 
> I am not sure what you mean.
> 

I think Andrew is saying that Samba has no real interest in creating
the set up that you seem to require, but you may find another tool that
does, but I will not hold my breath whilst you search for it.

Rowland





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