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| author | Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2005-06-14 14:33:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-04-23 08:46:48 -0500 |
| commit | f75a6fddf064d8e1ce436d3e4457a4aaca0904bd (patch) | |
| tree | b023e8a95757e8dda7f2cb6b407150bd7eff0c74 /docs | |
| parent | 6d6cb2f0a3db32812b650b813a532e8ee66c5c96 (diff) | |
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clarifying 'map to guest = bad uid'
(This used to be commit 81e49da90d10408eb39293eb00bcd7109ad7b7a9)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml index 57f0000f44..8993959073 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/security/maptoguest.xml @@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ <listitem> <para><constant>Bad Uid</constant> - Is only applicable when Samba is configured in some type of domain mode security (security = {domain|ads}) and means that - user logins which are successfully authenticated but which have no valid + user logins which are successfully authenticated but which have no valid Unix user account (and smbd is unable to create one) should be mapped to the defined - guest account. This was the default behavior of Samba 2.x releases.</para> + guest account. This was the default behavior of Samba 2.x releases. Note that + if a member server is running winbindd, this option should never be required + because the nss_winbind library will export the Windows domain users and groups + to the underlying OS via the Name Service Switch interface.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> |