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5.3 TRANSLATION Section

The `TRANSLATION' section specifies how to translate remote or local user names, or host names or addresses, to local user names. The `TRANSLATION' section is available only in the system configuration file. Syntax:

 
---BEGIN TRANSLATION---
translate  [user@]address into  username
...
---END---

address means host name or IP address. You can also specify `0.0.0.0', and it means any address (`INADDR_ANY').

An example:

 
---BEGIN TRANSLATION---
translate jack@somewhere.net into john
---END---

The rule above will allow a remote user `jack' at `somewhere.net' to use the configuration file of the local user `john'. Or you can write: `translate somewhere.net into john', and this means that all users at `somewhere.net' are allowed to use the local john's configuration file.



This document was generated by Wojciech Polak on December, 18 2004 using texi2html