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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>1997-12-03 04:20:39 +0000
committerAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>1997-12-03 04:20:39 +0000
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change the "username map" option to allow the user to stop the
processing part way through the file if a match is found. If a line starts with ! and a match is made by that line then processing stops. This allows better wildcard handling. (patch from Anselm.Kruis@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE) (This used to be commit af57bc05fe0f248aaef329358c583abcffe1657c)
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@@ -3524,6 +3524,11 @@ then continues with the next line.
If any line begins with a '#' or a ';' then it is ignored
+If any line begins with an ! then the processing will stop after that
+line if a mapping was done by the line. Otherwise mapping continues
+with every line being processed. Using ! is most useful when you have
+a wildcard mapping line later in the file.
+
For example to map from the name "admin" or "administrator" to the UNIX
name "root" you would use
@@ -3544,6 +3549,14 @@ quotes around the name. For example:
would map the windows username "Andrew Tridgell" to the unix username
tridge.
+The following example would map mary and fred to the unix user sys,
+and map the rest to guest. Note the use of the ! to tell Samba to stop
+processing if it gets a match on that line.
+
+ !sys = mary fred
+ guest = *
+
+
Note that the remapping is applied to all occurrences of
usernames. Thus if you connect to "\e\eserver\efred" and "fred" is
remapped to "mary" then you will actually be connecting to