>On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Chris M wrote:
>
> > I'd like to strip leading characters including \ for users that are
> > using NT Domains and don't understand what they are doing on dialup :)
> >
> > So WORKGROUP\myname should be rewritten to myname.
>
>Off the top of my head....
>
> RewriteUsername s/^.*\\(.*)/$1/
>
>And if you insist on stripping the (nonexistant or incorrect) trailing
>spaces as well....
>
> RewriteUsername s/^.*\\(.*)\s*$/$1/
>
>
> > Here is what I have so far, this might be helpful to others also:
> >
> > <Realm mydomain.com>
> > # Strip leading white space
> > RewriteUsername s/^\s+//
> > # Strip trailing white space
> > RewriteUsername s/\s+$//
> > # turn into lowercase and chop domain
> > RewriteUsername tr/A-Z/a-z/
> > RewriteUsername s/^([^@]+).*/$1/
> > # attempt to strip leading \ and characters up to it (no
>workee, help)
> > RewriteUsername s/^(\\+).*//
>
>Remember that Regex matching in general (and RewriteUsername in specific)
>is slooowwwwww.
That depends on the machine that they are running on :)
>You certainly want to cut down on the number of rewrite
>statements. For example, the first two you list could be done with one
>regex... "s/^\s*(.*)\s*$/$1/". On the other hand, I'd first make sure
>that you need to do that anyway; I've never seen leading and trailing
>spaces coming in on the username field, so that'd just be slowing it down
>for nothing in my case.
It definitely happens, lowers our tech support calls by about 1-2% we
think in looking at the logs, especially on new users. Why burden
them with all this computer esoterica. The case rectification adds
even more improvement.
>In any case, both of the ones I tossed out at
>the top will strip leading spaces, and the second will strip trailing
>spaces (of course, only if a "\" is in the string to begin with).
>
>I'd suggest something like this for what you appear to want:
>
> # rewrite domain\username to username
> RewriteUsername s/^.*\\(.*)/$1/
> # rewrite username@domain to username
> RewriteUsername s/^(.*)\@.*/$1/
> # promote user lameness and increase security risks
> RewriteUsername tr/[A-Z]/a-z/
# and lower tech support saving tons of $$$ that I can spend on
wine women and song.
I fail to see how this increases security risks, if they don't'
have a password they aren't going anywhere. Enlighten me oh regexman!
Thanks for the help,
Chris
>
>
>Please note I just wrote these regex's off the top of my head, so they
>may have typos or something odd wrong with 'em....none of my regex's
>have ever worked the first time around....buuuut, you should be able
>to see the thinking behind 'em, expecially armed with that nice O'Rielly
>book. (:
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