From: Gerald W. Carter Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:40:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Document how to enable the name aliasing support in Winbind. X-Git-Tag: samba-4.0.0alpha6~769^2~228^2~160 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73769e136e85fd1f6d39dad89bd84cdb7d758764;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git Document how to enable the name aliasing support in Winbind. (cherry picked from commit 6dc81eb85b11851794619a1f2769d68cd9a54fb6) --- diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml index 28826cf5f36..5b68bca9124 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml @@ -5,14 +5,25 @@ xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> This parameter controls whether winbindd will replace - whitespace in user and group names with an underscore (_) character. - For example, whether the name "Space Kadet" should be - replaced with the string "space_kadet". - Frequently Unix shell scripts will have difficulty with usernames - contains whitespace due to the default field separator in the shell. - Do not enable this option if the underscore character is used in - account names within your domain - + whitespace in user and group names with an underscore (_) character. + For example, whether the name "Space Kadet" should be + replaced with the string "space_kadet". + Frequently Unix shell scripts will have difficulty with usernames + contains whitespace due to the default field separator in the shell. + If your domain possesses names containing the underscore character, + this option may cause problems unless the name aliasing feature + is supported by your nss_info plugin. + + + This feature also enables the name aliasing API which can + be used to make domain user and group names to a non-qlaified + version. Please refer to the manpage for the configured + idmap and nss_info plugin for the specifics on how to configure + name aliasing for a specific configuration. Name aliasing takes + precendence (and is mutually exclusive) over the whitespace + replacement mechanism discussed previsouly. + + no