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</refsect1>
-<refsect1 id="VALIDATIONSECT">
- <title>NOTE ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a number of ways in which a user can connect to a service. The server uses the following steps
- in determining if it will allow a connection to a specified service. If all the steps fail, the connection
- request is rejected. However, if one of the steps succeeds, the following steps are not checked.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If the service is marked <quote>guest only = yes</quote> and the server is running with share-level
- security (<quote>security = share</quote>, steps 1 to 5 are skipped.
- </para>
-
-
- <orderedlist continuation="restarts" inheritnum="ignore" numeration="arabic">
- <listitem><para>
- If the client has passed a username/password pair and that username/password pair is validated by the UNIX
- system's password programs, the connection is made as that username. This includes the
- <literal>\\server\service</literal>%<replaceable>username</replaceable> method of passing a username.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- If the client has previously registered a username with the system and now supplies a correct password for that
- username, the connection is allowed.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- The client's NetBIOS name and any previously used usernames are checked against the supplied password. If
- they match, the connection is allowed as the corresponding user.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- If the client has previously validated a username/password pair with the server and the client has passed
- the validation token, that username is used.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- If a <literal>user = </literal> field is given in the <filename moreinfo="none">smb.conf</filename> file for the
- service and the client has supplied a password, and that password matches (according to the UNIX system's
- password checking) with one of the usernames from the <literal>user =</literal> field, the connection is made as
- the username in the <literal>user =</literal> line. If one of the usernames in the <literal>user =</literal> list
- begins with a <literal>@</literal>, that name expands to a list of names in the group of the same name.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- If the service is a guest service, a connection is made as the username given in the <literal>guest account
- =</literal> for the service, irrespective of the supplied password.
- </para></listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
-</refsect1>
-
<refsect1>
<title>REGISTRY-BASED CONFIGURATION</title>