topic Possible to map whole AD Group to unix user or group? in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Possible-to-map-whole-AD-Group-to-unix-user-or-group/m-p/51838#M4742 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need to provide access to Windows AD users (that are members of "ContribFTP") to a UNIX Volume (via CIFS share).</P><P>I want to map all of them to a specific UNIX user ("uxuser" for example).</P><P>It works great when I put users individually into /etc/usermap.cfg (i.e. *\user1 =&gt; uxuser), but I don't want to put every user in usermap.cfg and maintain it every time we add new user.</P><P>Is it possible to map ALL users inside "ContribFTP" group to "uxuser" ?</P><P>Adding entry to /etc/usermap.cfg:</P><P><EM>*\contribftp =&gt; uxuser</EM></P><P>doesn't work <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="sad" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/sad.gif"></SPAN></P><P>If it's impossible, what about Windows (AD) group to UNIX group mapping? I didn't see such file (i.e. /etc/groupmap.cfg) anywhere... </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:14:36 GMT leonid_karchevsky 2025-06-05T06:14:36Z Possible to map whole AD Group to unix user or group? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Possible-to-map-whole-AD-Group-to-unix-user-or-group/m-p/51838#M4742 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need to provide access to Windows AD users (that are members of "ContribFTP") to a UNIX Volume (via CIFS share).</P><P>I want to map all of them to a specific UNIX user ("uxuser" for example).</P><P>It works great when I put users individually into /etc/usermap.cfg (i.e. *\user1 =&gt; uxuser), but I don't want to put every user in usermap.cfg and maintain it every time we add new user.</P><P>Is it possible to map ALL users inside "ContribFTP" group to "uxuser" ?</P><P>Adding entry to /etc/usermap.cfg:</P><P><EM>*\contribftp =&gt; uxuser</EM></P><P>doesn't work <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="sad" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/sad.gif"></SPAN></P><P>If it's impossible, what about Windows (AD) group to UNIX group mapping? I didn't see such file (i.e. /etc/groupmap.cfg) anywhere... </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:14:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Possible-to-map-whole-AD-Group-to-unix-user-or-group/m-p/51838#M4742 leonid_karchevsky 2025-06-05T06:14:36Z Re: Possible to map whole AD Group to unix user or group? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Possible-to-map-whole-AD-Group-to-unix-user-or-group/m-p/51844#M4743 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As far as I know it is not possible. Also Windows does not really have notion of “primary group” for a user.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:31:01 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Possible-to-map-whole-AD-Group-to-unix-user-or-group/m-p/51844#M4743 aborzenkov 2012-11-29T06:31:01Z