Bug 8898 - pdbedit -L does not disambiguate usernames with the same UID
Summary: pdbedit -L does not disambiguate usernames with the same UID
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.6
Classification: Unclassified
Component: User & Group Accounts (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6.4
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Samba Bugzilla Account
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2012-04-26 01:26 UTC by Joseph Tam
Modified: 2015-05-02 16:50 UTC (History)
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Description Joseph Tam 2012-04-26 01:26:13 UTC 
If you have two accounts with the same UID in your password backend, for example

    dup1:12345:...
    dup2:12345:...
    dup3:12345:...

pdbedit -L will report all the accounts, but with the same username.

    dup1:10167:Test User 1
    dup1:10167:Test User 1
    dup1:10167:Test User 1

I do not know if the duplicated name depends on the order of samba's backend or the UID->user resolution performed by the server host.  Different usernames mapped to the same UID are useful when sharing files amonmg different users without having to share passwords.
Comment 1 Björn Jacke 2015-05-02 16:50:44 UTC 
> Different usernames mapped to the same UID are useful

no. A setup with different usernames but same UID are broken. Don't do that.