On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM, D Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:58:49AM -0800, wes wrote: > > > Is it possible to specify aliases for the username, so that a user can > > choose any 1 of several names to log in with? > > > > Like let's say we have my name as a username, "Wesley". But what I if I > want > > to be very lazy and only sign in with "wes"? And I would like to have the > > option of using either. And if I change any attribute of one alias, it's > all > > stored in the same place, so it should take effect for the other aliases. > > So, if I log in as "wesley" and change my password, I should be able to > log > > out and log back in as "wes" with the new password I set for "wesley". > > Hi Wes, > > Check out the "username map" parameter in the smb.conf man page -- it > should allow you to do exactly what you describe. > > Dan > Thanks for the tip. I have entered username map=/etc/samba/users.map into smb.conf, and this is the contents of users.map: wesley=wes but, I am unable to log in with "wes" - it gives me the authentication failed message. I have checked the logs, and it gives the same error as if I had entered an incorrect username. I'm sorry, but I failed to mention in my first post that I am using samba as a domain controller, with ldap integration. Will that break the username map functionality? thanks, -wes -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
