On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 14:07 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > As written in > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html > > "Where winbindd is not used Samba (smbd) uses the underlying > UNIX/Linux mechanisms to resolve the identity of incoming network > traffic. This is done using the LoginID (account name) in the session > setup request and passing it to the getpwnam() system function call. > This call is implemented using the name service switch (NSS) mechanism > on modern UNIX/Linux systems. By saying "users and groups are local," > we are implying that they are stored only on the local system, in the > /etc/passwd and /etc/group respectively. > > For example, when the user BERYLIUM\WambatW tries to open a connection > to a Samba server the incoming SessionSetupAndX request will make a > system call to look up the user WambatW in the /etc/passwd file. " > > My question: if BERYLIUM trusts ANOTHERDOMAIN, and > ANOTHERDOMAIN\WambatW tries to open a connection to my Samba server, > what user will be looked up in /etc/passwd?
It should be: ANOTHERDOMAIN\WambatW -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
