context="S"
xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
- <para>This is a boolean option that controls whether
- connections with usernames not in the <parameter moreinfo="none">user</parameter>
- list will be allowed. By default this option is disabled so that a
- client can supply a username to be used by the server. Enabling
- this parameter will force the server to only use the login
- names from the <parameter moreinfo="none">user</parameter> list and is only really
- useful in <smbconfoption name="security">share</smbconfoption> level security.</para>
+ <para>To restrict a service to a particular set of users you
+ can use the <smbconfoption name="valid users"/> parameter.</para>
+
+ <para>This parameter is deprecated</para>
+
+ <para>However, it currently operates only in conjunction with
+ <smbconfoption name="username"/>. The supported way to restrict
+ a service to a particular set of users is the
+ <smbconfoption name="valid users"/> parameter.</para>
- <para>Note that this also means Samba won't try to deduce
- usernames from the service name. This can be annoying for
- the [homes] section. To get around this you could use <command moreinfo="none">user =
- %S</command> which means your <parameter moreinfo="none">user</parameter> list
- will be just the service name, which for home directories is the
- name of the user.</para>
</description>
<related>user</related>