Changing OU separator in net ads join ?

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Tue Nov 16 21:39:46 GMT 2004


Would it make sense to allow '\\' as a separator (that is, a single '\' 
escaped)?

Chridz -)-----

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:16:46PM -0700, Jim McDonough wrote:
> I'd like to change the separator used for constructing an OU in net ads 
> join.  Currently, it is either \ or /, but this causes a problem with some 
> other characters.  For example, we can't handle a # (bug 1374), because it 
> needs to be escaped in the directory with a \, but all \'s are assumed to 
> be separators.  Since we can already use a /, would anyone object if I 
> changed it to use only "/"  ?
> 
> ----------------------------
> Jim McDonough
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> Samba Team
> 6 Minuteman Drive
> Scarborough, ME 04074
> USA
> 
> jmcd at us.ibm.com 
> jmcd at samba.org
> 
> Phone: (207) 885-5565
> IBM tie-line: 776-9984
> 

-- 
"Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X
Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/     -)-----   Christopher R. Hertel
jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/   -)-----   ubiqx development, uninq.
ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/     -)-----   crh at ubiqx.mn.org
OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/    -)-----   crh at ubiqx.org


More information about the samba-technical mailing list