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@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@ New features included in the 3.0.8pre1 release are:
Change in Username Map
----------------------
-Previous Samba releases would only support reading the fully
-qualified username (e.g. DOMAIN\user) when performing a kerberos
-login from a 200x/XP client. However, when looking up a map entry
-for a user authenticated by NTLM[SSP], only the login name would be
+Previous Samba releases would only support reading the fully qualified
+username (e.g. DOMAIN\user) from the username map when performing a
+kerberos login from a client. However, when looking up a map
+entry for a user authenticated by NTLM[SSP], only the login name would be
used for matches. This resulted in inconsistent behavior sometimes
even on the same server.
Samba 3.0.8pre2 obeys the following rules when applying the username
-map functionality.
+map functionality:
* When performing local authentication, the username map is
applied to the login name before attempting to authenticate