change the "username map" option to allow the user to stop the

processing part way through the file if a match is found. If a line
starts with ! and a match is made by that line then processing
stops. This allows better wildcard handling.

(patch from Anselm.Kruis@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE)

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
index 1145de12637..147b3dce9f4 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
+++ b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
@@ -3524,6 +3524,11 @@ then continues with the next line.
 
 If any line begins with a '#' or a ';' then it is ignored
 
+If any line begins with an ! then the processing will stop after that
+line if a mapping was done by the line. Otherwise mapping continues
+with every line being processed. Using ! is most useful when you have
+a wildcard mapping line later in the file.
+
 For example to map from the name "admin" or "administrator" to the UNIX
 name "root" you would use
 
@@ -3544,6 +3549,14 @@ quotes around the name. For example:
 would map the windows username "Andrew Tridgell" to the unix username
 tridge.
 
+The following example would map mary and fred to the unix user sys,
+and map the rest to guest. Note the use of the ! to tell Samba to stop
+processing if it gets a match on that line.
+
+	!sys = mary fred
+	guest = *
+
+
 Note that the remapping is applied to all occurrences of
 usernames. Thus if you connect to "\e\eserver\efred" and "fred" is
 remapped to "mary" then you will actually be connecting to