Managing Directory-Based Name Mapping for Users and Groups
The following table points to the tasks that you can use to manage directory-based identity
mapping for the SMB server in a Windows environment.
These tasks use the
idmap
(1M)
command to manage identity mapping.
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Extend the Active Directory (AD) schema with user and group name attributes.
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Extends the AD schema and populates the user and group objects with UNIX user and group name
information.
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Extend the native LDAP schema with user and group name attributes.
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Extends the native LDAP schema and populates the user and group objects with Windows user and
group name information.
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Configure directory-based name mapping.
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Enables directory-based mapping. This procedure also informs the idmap
service about the new AD schema attributes that are used by the user and group objects.
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Add a directory-based name mapping to a user or group object.
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Adds a directory-based name mapping to a user or group object in AD or native LDAP.
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Remove a directory-based name mapping from a user or group object.
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Removes a directory-based name mapping from a user or group object in AD or native
LDAP.
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For more information about user and group identities, see Mapping User and Group Identities. For more information
about how to determine your identity mapping strategy, see Creating Your Identity Mapping Strategy.
Note -
In a cluster configuration,
changes made to user maps and to group maps on one server are immediately propagated to the other
server.