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authorGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>2008-09-23 11:40:28 -0700
committerGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>2008-09-25 09:00:35 -0700
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Document how to enable the name aliasing support in Winbind.
(cherry picked from commit 6dc81eb85b11851794619a1f2769d68cd9a54fb6)
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diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml
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--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/winbind/winbindnormalizenames.xml
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@@ -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 &quot;Space Kadet&quot; should be
- replaced with the string &quot;space_kadet&quot;.
- 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 &quot;Space Kadet&quot; should be
+ replaced with the string &quot;space_kadet&quot;.
+ 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>