Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Aug 28 18:52:15 GMT 2007


On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:42:17PM -0400, simo wrote:

> Just for the records, I was not implying nss_ldap or nis does anything
> better or absolutely right that we don't, just that we are helpless like
> all other nss plugins.

No we are not. We can fix this (as could the ldap nss code).

> It's not the nss plugin job to mess with locales.

Did you read my proposal ? Winbindd will mess with
the character set conversion, nss will merely tell
winbindd what character set the current client is
using.

Jeremy


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