Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

[Björn Jacke]

On 2007-08-27 at 18:30 -0700 Jeremy Allison sent off:
> Thoughts ? Comments ?

that means a winbind client running in legacy en_US locale will for 
example see a iso8859-1 encoded user name "domänen administrator" while 
at the same time a 'getent passwd "domänen administrator"' on the 
same system gives *nothing*. That will be because libc will not do any 
conversion and IIRC the correcponding nsswitch functions do not care 
about locales at all. Instead the same user via nsswitch will have a 
"totally different" name: "domänen administrator" - which is again 
not known by a "localized" winbind.

Am I wrong? Otherwise I'm not so convinced that such a conversion 
is a good idea.

Björn
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