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| author | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-09-23 11:40:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-09-25 09:00:35 -0700 |
| commit | 73769e136e85fd1f6d39dad89bd84cdb7d758764 (patch) | |
| tree | 7473cd01e11fa7aafe8a34d5ef03607d0cbbf852 /docs-xml | |
| parent | f27774729e8c88615b9d3d25a85cae0a1fc35c4f (diff) | |
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Document how to enable the name aliasing support in Winbind.
(cherry picked from commit 6dc81eb85b11851794619a1f2769d68cd9a54fb6)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml | 27 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml index 28826cf5f3..5b68bca912 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml @@ -5,14 +5,25 @@ xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> <para>This parameter controls whether winbindd will replace - whitespace in user and group names with an underscore (_) character. - For example, whether the name "Space Kadet" should be - replaced with the string "space_kadet". - Frequently Unix shell scripts will have difficulty with usernames - contains whitespace due to the default field separator in the shell. - Do not enable this option if the underscore character is used in - account names within your domain - </para> + whitespace in user and group names with an underscore (_) character. + For example, whether the name "Space Kadet" should be + replaced with the string "space_kadet". + Frequently Unix shell scripts will have difficulty with usernames + contains whitespace due to the default field separator in the shell. + If your domain possesses names containing the underscore character, + this option may cause problems unless the name aliasing feature + is supported by your nss_info plugin. + </para> + + <para>This feature also enables the name aliasing API which can + be used to make domain user and group names to a non-qlaified + version. Please refer to the manpage for the configured + idmap and nss_info plugin for the specifics on how to configure + name aliasing for a specific configuration. Name aliasing takes + precendence (and is mutually exclusive) over the whitespace + replacement mechanism discussed previsouly. + </para> + </description> <value type="default">no</value> |