From ab36c1d152e231be644dc7413ad5b6816f45e24f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Metzmacher Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:30:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs-xml: improve documentation of "map untrusted to domain" BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8630 Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett --- .../security/mapuntrustedtodomain.xml | 25 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/mapuntrustedtodomain.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/mapuntrustedtodomain.xml index 496e7c24c07..a02948ace4b 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/mapuntrustedtodomain.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/mapuntrustedtodomain.xml @@ -5,27 +5,22 @@ xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> - If a client connects to smbd using an untrusted domain name, such as - BOGUS\user, smbd replaces the BOGUS domain with it's SAM name before + By default, and with no, + if a client connects to smbd using an untrusted domain name, such as + BOGUS\user, smbd replaces the BOGUS domain with it's SAM name + (forcing local authentication) before attempting to authenticate that user. In the case where smbd is acting as - a PDC this will be DOMAIN\user. In the case where smbd is acting as a + a NT4 PDC/BDC this will be DOMAIN\user. In the case where smbd is acting as a domain member server or a standalone server this will be WORKSTATION\user. - In previous versions of Samba (pre 3.4), if smbd was acting as a domain - member server, the BOGUS domain name would instead be replaced by the - primary domain which smbd was a member of. In this case authentication - would be deferred off to a DC using the credentials DOMAIN\user. + With yes, + smbd provides the legacy behavior matching that of versions of Samba pre 3.4: + the BOGUS domain name would always be replaced by the + primary domain before attempting to authenticate that user. + This will be DOMAIN\user in all server roles except active directory domain controller. - - - When this parameter is set to yes smbd provides the - legacy behavior of mapping untrusted domain names to the primary domain. - When smbd is not acting as a domain member server, this parameter has no - effect. - - no -- 2.47.2