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| author | Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> | 2009-01-21 10:56:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> | 2009-01-22 09:50:52 +0100 |
| commit | 5ba5772f15b07bec7655aaaa85327b455d8cdd8d (patch) | |
| tree | cfd0c1bf1eac8e68084ee5abed0709eca0f9c97b /docs-xml | |
| parent | 6778099259661a65337a66282db6d0228e453545 (diff) | |
| download | samba-5ba5772f15b07bec7655aaaa85327b455d8cdd8d.tar.gz | |
s3:docs: clarify explanation of the allocator in the idmap_ldap manpage
Michael
(cherry picked from commit 816934faa8bbe53dd299bc5e39f471eafdddefa8)
Signed-off-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
(cherry picked from commit 0b1036d5d6e06e2fa14dab163d51a902ca63fc0a)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs-xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml index 4d6167353c7..603f8002324 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/idmap_ldap.8.xml @@ -22,9 +22,15 @@ <para>The idmap_ldap plugin provides a means for Winbind to store and retrieve SID/uid/gid mapping tables in an LDAP directory service. + </para> + + <para> In contrast to read only backends like idmap_rid, it is an allocating - backend: This means that it needs to allocate new user and group IDs to - create new mappings as requests to yet unmapped users are answered. + backend: This means that it needs to allocate new user and group IDs in + order to create new mappings. The allocator can be provided by the + idmap_ldap backend itself or by any other allocating backend like + idmap_tdb or idmap_tdb2. This is configured with the + parameter <parameter>idmap alloc backend</parameter>. </para> <para> |