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| author | Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> | 2009-01-21 10:56:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> | 2009-01-21 10:56:56 +0100 |
| commit | 816934faa8bbe53dd299bc5e39f471eafdddefa8 (patch) | |
| tree | 97392ccae2317239fc25f60efd0ffd4a4e7ef026 /docs-xml/manpages-3 | |
| parent | 665b5dc70333ca36129a6fe06645bd9faa4f2350 (diff) | |
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s3:docs: clarify explanation of the allocator in the idmap_ldap manpage
Michael
Diffstat (limited to 'docs-xml/manpages-3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml index ea9e5bf07e..0c8fa3c3eb 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml @@ -22,9 +22,15 @@ <para>The idmap_ldap plugin provides a means for Winbind to store and retrieve SID/uid/gid mapping tables in an LDAP directory service. + </para> + + <para> In contrast to read only backends like idmap_rid, it is an allocating - backend: This means that it needs to allocate new user and group IDs to - create new mappings as requests to yet unmapped users are answered. + backend: This means that it needs to allocate new user and group IDs in + order to create new mappings. The allocator can be provided by the + idmap_ldap backend itself or by any other allocating backend like + idmap_tdb or idmap_tdb2. This is configured with the + parameter <parameter>idmap alloc backend</parameter>. </para> <para> |