-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oliver Heering wrote: > Hi, > > we want to set up a samba-server with an ldap-backend (so far no > problem, got this running already) but want the users to login to > workstations using their email-address instead of a "normal" > login-name. > > I already figured out that i cannot add unix users with an "@" in > their login neither via "useradd" nor via "smbldap-useradd", so i was > thinking about some username-mapping ("username map" in smb.conf). > > My question is: is it possible to map for example "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to > some sort of "me_at_home.com" or "me_at_home_com"? And if yes, what > replacement for the "@" works best?
Yeah. I think this will work. Setup an user entry like dn: .... mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uid: foo and then include a username map script which is basically an `ldapsearch .... "(mail=$1)" uid` See the smb.conf(5) man page for details. cheers, jerry ===================================================================== Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "There's an anonymous coward in all of us." --anonymous -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDcKjHIR7qMdg1EfYRAv/4AJ97vfTeJCCzWzVqmQKNib0MQBDeMQCfRrbo +yDoQJOCOtTc2MXt06uOQ40= =uvF2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba