patch for winbind: Convert username spaces to underscore

[Tim Potter]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:30:56PM +1000, mjd at alphalink.com.au wrote:

> We use winbind from Samba 2.2.3a on our Linux
> CVS server so that PC users can authenticate to
> the CVS servers using their Windows usernames.
> 
> We use this option in smb.conf for calculating
> our home directories:
> 
>    template homedir = "/home/%D/%U"
>  
> One problem is that usernames here have spaces
> in them, eg, my username is "mitch davis".  This
> leads to a home directory of "/home/MYCOMPANY/mitch davis",
> which causes grief to many Linux programs.

Maybe having some more substitution parameters would be a neater
solution to the problem.  It would certainly avoid Yet Another Parameter
being added to smb.conf.

Perhaps %d/%u for domain and username with spaces, and %D/%U for spaces
replaced with underscores?


Tim.