Bug? in v3-0-test, printing/printing.c:print_job_start(), line 2399 ~ 2403, job's user name will be in lowercase.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Apr 11 19:40:13 GMT 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:54:01PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> >> Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
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> >>> $ git log 03ac082d
> >>> commit 03ac082dcb375b6f3ca3d810a6a6367542bc23ce
> >>> Author: Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>
> >>> Date:   Mon Jul 15 10:35:28 2002 +0000
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> >>>     updated the 3.0 branch from the head branch - ready for alpha18
> >>>
> >>> This would require a bit more of tracking...
> >> Looks to go back to CVS.  Needless to say it is not new behavior.
> > 
> > But is it now the *right* behavior :-). We now are much better
> > at splitting out the Windows name and UNIX name and would be
> > better placed to allow multi-case Windows usernames (IMHO).
> 
> Come on.  Does anyone seriously use nixed cased
> usernames in /etc/passwd?  Aren't we just trying to fix
> a corner case here?

%U is the incoming Windows name and we're lower casing it. I'm happy
that %u is lower cased.

Jeremy.


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