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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml index 711f20f39d..75c61fbec0 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/winbind/idmapbackend.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <description> <para> The purpose of the idmap backend parameter is to allow idmap to NOT use the local idmap - tdb file to obtain SID to UID / GID mappings, but instead to obtain them from a common + tdb file to obtain SID to UID / GID mappings for unmapped SIDs, but instead to obtain them from a common LDAP backend. This way all domain members and controllers will have the same UID and GID to SID mappings. This avoids the risk of UID / GID inconsistencies across UNIX / Linux systems that are sharing information over protocols other than SMB/CIFS (ie: NFS). |