Hi Tobias,

thanks for your answer.

Is this only possible with krb5 security or does any of the ntlm* security options support this method?

Regards
Christian


Am 08.07.2014 13:04, schrieb Tobias Doerffel:
Hi Christian,

you could indeed use krb5 authentication (and possibly in combination with the 
multiuser option) so you can build whatever mechanism you like for getting the 
required kerberos ticket for the user.  Once you have the ticket you should be 
able to access the shares independent of the account name specifications. You 
have to configure your AD server such that it provides credentials for the UPN. 
Advantage: you don't have to deal with possible limitations in the CIFS 
implementation on the client side.

Best regards

Tobias Doerffel


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Hi everybody,

just one simple question regarding the authentication of users in the mount 
options: Is it possible to authenticate a user with his userPrincipalName 
attribute and a password or are there any more dependencies to get this to work 
(i. e. krb5 or other security options)?

Example: mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o 
[email protected],password=PASSWORD

The only working solution was with the default sAMAccountName Attribute.

Background:
We are building a new fileservice for Windows and Linux Clients. The users are 
stored in Active Directory. The username (sAMAccountName) is a random string 
created by the Server itself. The only login attribute the user knows is his 
UPN (which is also the mailaddress in our case).


Thanks in advance
Christian

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