Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 15:02 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:17:55PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> 
> > So the question is not who owns the bug, but rather who can
> > (or should) fix it.  And what we should tell said customers
> > and Samba users.
> 
> Simo and I have had a long chat about this, and he convinced
> me there are some existing cases where fixing this bug will
> break them.
> 
> So we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't.
> 
> In my locale I'm right and Simo's wrong, in his locale
> he's right and I'm wrong :-).
> 
> So the best thing to do is split the difference and
> make this configurable (just what we needed, more options :-).
> 
> This will fix the problem for both cases, and allow
> the admin to decide if winbindd will take the client
> charset into account.
> 
> So the people who've made aggressive use of different
> locales per process will be happy, as will the ones 
> who enforce one locale per system.

Given the reality that most of us work on systems that use just one
charset (even in multiple locales), as to most of our users, how are we
going to ensure we don't break this, or introduce security issues as a
result of this, in future?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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