<title>IDMAP SCRIPT</title>
<para>
- The tdb2 idmap backend supports an external program for performing id mappings
+ The script idmap backend supports an external program for performing id mappings
through the &smb.conf; option <parameter>idmap config * : script</parameter> or
its deprecated legacy form <parameter>idmap : script</parameter>.
</para>
- <para>
- The mappings obtained by the script are then stored in the idmap tdb2
- database instead of mappings created by the incrementing id counters.
- It is therefore important that the script covers the complete range of
- SIDs that can be passed in for SID to Unix ID mapping, since otherwise
- SIDs unmapped by the script might get mapped to IDs that had
- previously been mapped by the script.
- </para>
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<para>
The script should accept the following command line options.
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