Suggestion: make Winbindd more Active-Directory-alike

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Wed Nov 28 15:02:27 GMT 2001


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:12:37PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:07:30PM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > Aren't there sendmail rules that can deal with a username
> > > containing a '@', or is this considered "not done" in admin
> > > circles....
> > 
> > 	Worse: Rogers just used @ in actual mail-names
> > 	(not full email adressess) and broke all the 
> > 	RFC822-compliant pop clients.
> > 
> > 	They just fixed it today, allowing former usersd
> > 	of @home to get their email!
> 
> So I take it having '@' in a username is generally
> a "BAD" idea ?
> 
> Jeremy.

IMHO is a very bad idea.

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