Note that my original problem was fixed when I sent in this patch: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-July/036575.html
That said, I still think it would be useful to flatten usernames to lowercase in some cases. Tom On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:34:46 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tom Shaw wrote: > > | I've had a look through the archives and found > | this discussion on winbind and case sensitivity: > | http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-February/080321.html > ... > | The issue is that winbind will in some cases return > | a username capitalized as per the NT database (ie when > | the user is looked up by uid), and in other cases as > | per the way the user typed it (ie when the > | user is looked up by username). This has cause problems > | for me in integrating a Unix system into a Windows > | environment. > | > | Has anyone done any work on making a patch like the > | one Andrew Bartlett proposed? > > Andrew and I spoke about this briefly on IRC last week > while debugging a different winbindd bug. It would be > a pretty trivial change but one that would have a > large impact on existing sites I think. > > So the question is how many installations will break if > winbindd all of a sudden starts lower casing usernames? > > If I can be adequate feedback on this, we'll consider > making the change. > > cheers, jerry > - --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org > GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > "If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song"--Switchfoot (2003) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFBMzsGIR7qMdg1EfYRAgBZAJ9ZyKhCAHvnd+IuzSyToiF7XVF/fQCgg6jz > YXkKckL/BlBDctRji6nEEHg= > =SWjw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
