On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:54:53PM -0800, wes wrote: > 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?
Hi Wes, Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but make sure you restart Samba after changing the configuration file. Is the server you're authenticating to the domain controller or a domain member server? If it's the domain controller, the username map should be applied before authenticating. If it's a domain member, the map is applied after the user has been authenticated by the domain controller. I don't think the controller will apply its local username map in that situation, though. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
