NAME

       idmap_ldap - Samba's idmap_ldap Backend for Winbind

DESCRIPTION

       The idmap_ldap plugin provides a means for Winbind to store and retrieve SID/uid/gid
       mapping tables in an LDAP directory service.

       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 in order to create new mappings.

IDMAP OPTIONS

       ldap_base_dn = DN
           Defines the directory base suffix to use for SID/uid/gid mapping entries. If not
           defined, idmap_ldap will default to using the "ldap idmap suffix" option from
           /etc/samba/smb.conf.

       ldap_user_dn = DN
           Defines the user DN to be used for authentication. The secret for authenticating this
           user should be stored with net idmap secret (see net(8)). If absent, the ldap
           credentials from the ldap passdb configuration are used, and if these are also absent,
           an anonymous bind will be performed as last fallback.

       ldap_url = ldap://server/
           Specifies the LDAP server to use for SID/uid/gid map entries. If not defined,
           idmap_ldap will assume that ldap://localhost/ should be used.

       range = low - high
           Defines the available matching uid and gid range for which the backend is
           authoritative.

EXAMPLES

       The following example shows how an ldap directory is used as the default idmap backend. It
       also configures the idmap range and base directory suffix. The secret for the ldap_user_dn
       has to be set with "net idmap secret '*' password".

                [global]
                idmap config * : backend      = ldap
                idmap config * : range        = 1000000-1999999
                idmap config * : ldap_url     = ldap://localhost/
                idmap config * : ldap_base_dn = ou=idmap,dc=example,dc=com
                idmap config * : ldap_user_dn = cn=idmap_admin,dc=example,dc=com

       This example shows how ldap can be used as a readonly backend while tdb is the default
       backend used to store the mappings. It adds an explicit configuration for some domain
       DOM1, that uses the ldap idmap backend. Note that a range disjoint from the default range
       is used.

                [global]
                # "backend = tdb" is redundant here since it is the default
                idmap config * : backend = tdb
                idmap config * : range = 1000000-1999999

                idmap config DOM1 : backend = ldap
                idmap config DOM1 : range = 2000000-2999999
                idmap config DOM1 : read only = yes
                idmap config DOM1 : ldap_url = ldap://server/
                idmap config DOM1 : ldap_base_dn = ou=idmap,dc=dom1,dc=example,dc=com
                idmap config DOM1 : ldap_user_dn = cn=idmap_admin,dc=dom1,dc=example,dc=com

NOTE

       In order to use authentication against ldap servers you may need to provide a DN and a
       password. To avoid exposing the password in plain text in the configuration file we store
       it into a security store. The "net idmap " command is used to store a secret for the DN
       specified in a specific idmap domain.

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba
       is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux
       kernel is developed.