Idmap config rid
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Introduction
The "idmap_rid" module implements a read-only API to retrieve account and group information from a Domain Controller. It assigns IDs from a defined range, which will be stored in a local database. The values for login shell and home directory will be set via smb.conf parameter and are the same for all users on this host.
- Advantages:
- Easy and fast to setup
- No requirement to track already used IDs
- No write access to the domain databases (DC) required
- All accounts/groups are automatically available on this host. No need to set attributes
- Disadvantages:
- All users have the same login shell (e. g. /bin/bash or /sbin/nologin) and home directory base path (e. g. /home/...)
- A corrupt local idmap database on a host means loosing file ownership information.
- Different IDs on DCs
- All accounts/groups are automatically available on this host. No way to exclude some (need to be done via service limitation, like "invalid users=...", or the like)
An alternative in an Active Directory is idmap_ad.
The mapping formula
The Unix ID for a RID is calculated this way:
ID = RID - BASE_RID + LOW_RANGE_ID.
Correspondingly, the formula for calculating the RID for a given Unix ID is this:
RID = ID + BASE_RID - LOW_RANGE_ID.
smb.conf settings
Add the following to the [global] section of your smb.conf:
[global] ... # Important: The ranges of the default (*) idmap config # and the domain(s) must not overlap! # Default idmap config used for BUILTIN and local accounts/groups idmap config *:backend = tdb idmap config *:range = 2000-9999 # idmap config for domain SAMDOM idmap config SAMDOM:backend = rid idmap config SAMDOM:range = 10000-99999 # Use template settings for login shell and home directory winbind nss info = template template shell = /sbin/bash template homedir = /home/%U
See the manpage of smb.conf and idmap_rid for information about the parameters and options used.