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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2006-07-06 19:08:36 +0000
committerGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>2008-04-23 08:47:20 -0500
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fix passdb backend description for 3.0.23 behavior
(This used to be commit 6400414f57c6927f5b993da33b74bf53cf1aa678)
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-rw-r--r--docs/smbdotconf/security/passdbbackend.xml42
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/security/passdbbackend.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/security/passdbbackend.xml
index 1a4baa5c08..1555af1d48 100644
--- a/docs/smbdotconf/security/passdbbackend.xml
+++ b/docs/smbdotconf/security/passdbbackend.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@
<samba:parameter name="passdb backend"
context="G"
- type="list"
+ type="list"
advanced="1" developer="1"
xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
- <para>This option allows the administrator to chose which backends
- to retrieve and store passwords with. This allows (for example) both
- smbpasswd and tdbsam to be used without a recompile. Multiple
- backends can be specified, separated by spaces. The backends will be
- searched in the order they are specified. New users are always added
- to the first backend specified. </para>
+ <para>This option allows the administrator to chose which backend
+ will be used for storing user and possibly group information. This allows
+ you to swap between dfferent storage mechanisms without recompile. </para>
- <para>This parameter is in two parts, the backend's name, and a 'location'
+ <para>The parameter value is divided into two parts, the backend's name, and a 'location'
string that has meaning only to that particular backed. These are separated
by a : character.</para>
@@ -46,41 +43,16 @@
</para>
</listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><command moreinfo="none">nisplussam</command> -
- The NIS+ based passdb backend. Takes name NIS domain as
- an optional argument. Only works with sun NIS+ servers.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><command moreinfo="none">mysql</command> -
- The MySQL based passdb backend. Takes an identifier as
- argument. Read the Samba HOWTO Collection for configuration
- details.
- </para></listitem>
-
</itemizedlist>
</para>
Examples of use are:
<programlisting>
-passdb backend = tdbsam:/etc/samba/private/passdb.tdb \
- smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd
-
-or
-
-passdb backend = ldapsam:ldaps://ldap.example.com
-
-or
-
-passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://ldap-1.example.com \
- ldap://ldap-2.example.com"
+passdb backend = tdbsam:/etc/samba/private/passdb.tdb
or
-passdb backend = mysql:my_plugin_args tdbsam
+passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://ldap-1.example.com ldap://ldap-2.example.com"
</programlisting>
</description>