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Matt Johnson wrote: | Hi, | | I'm successfully using winbind to authenticate a | debian sarge workstation against an nt4 server. | | Works a treat. | | However, I have an odd situation where a user logs in | for the first time as "John Smith" and gets created a | "John Smith" directory in /home. *Then*, if they log | in as "john smith", they get a second directory | created as "john smith" in /home! | | (yes, our nt4 usernames have whitespace in them, and | yes, it's a headache - but that's another story) | | This is for a network of 600 pupils and teachers, who | cannot remember if they logged in lowercase, uppercase | or both. | | How can I either (i) enforce lowercase only, or (ii) | have winbind treat "John" and "john" the same?
This was fixed in a more recent release (3.0.9 ? maybe ....check the WHATSNEW) by internally converting all winbindd usernames and groups to lowercase regardless of what the user typed in.
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