[ADVANCE NOTICE] usernames limited to 8 chars gonna be nasty..

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Tue Apr 11 01:21:39 GMT 2000


for share-level security?  you shouldn't be affected at all.

if you run with TNG at all and find that "security = share" doesn't work
for you at any time, bitch about it, ok?

thanks frederik.

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running Samba 2.0.6 and I want to install it on a production
> business-critical Machine in a week (Upgrade from NT4 --> FreeBSD).
> I gonna have usernames which look like DOMAIN1\MyUsername (In this
> length). I just want the password validation for shares (they don't need
> to log on). Can I do that, or not....
> 
> --
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Freddy
> 
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> 
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > this is to let you all know that we're going to be very, very mean to you
> > all and mandate that usernames can be of the following format... in
> > /etc/passwd:
> > 
> > DOMAINNAME\username.
> > 
> > oh, dear: what a pity!  that's more than 8 chars.
> > 
> > @begin sympathy
> > well... umm... tough!  you'll just have to change all your domain names to
> > two chars and have usernames of less than 5.  sorry!
> > @end sympathy
> > 
> > any objections?
> > 
> > [linux copes nicely, i just tried DOMAIN\Administrator and pam_ntdom let
> > me log in.]
> > 
> > luke
> > 
> > <a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
> > <a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl"  > Samba and Network Development   </a>
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> >  
> > ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
> > 
> 

<a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
<a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl"  > Samba and Network Development   </a>
<a href=" http://samba.org"      > Samba Web site                  </a>
<a href=" http://mcp.com"        > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>
 
ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals



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