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NAME | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON 

IDMAPWB.SO(8)            System Manager's Manual            IDMAPWB.SO(8)

NAME         top

       idmapwb.so - winbind ID mapping plugin for cifs-utils

DESCRIPTION         top

       This plugin allows the utilities in cifs-utils to work in
       conjuction with the winbind facility of Samba suite. It handles
       several functions including mapping UID and GID to SIDs and vice
       versa.

       Utilities are usually configured to use the correct plugin by
       creating a symlink at /etc/cifs-utils/idmap-plugin that points to
       the correct plugin that you wish to use.

       This plugin requires that winbindd(8) be properly configured and
       running.

SEE ALSO         top

       getcifsacl(1), setcifsacl(1), cifs.idmap(8), samba(7),
       smb.conf(5), winbindd(8)

AUTHOR         top

       idmapwb.so was written by Jeff Layton < <jlayton@samba.org> >

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the LinuxCIFS utils (network filesystem
       mounts from Linux (e.g. to Samba, ksmbd, etc.)) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, send it to
       linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org.  This
       page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2025-06-10.)  If you discover any rendering
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