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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>     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.

yeah.  And things like "path = /foo/%U" need to be consistent.
I think we have the correct behavior.  If you change this behavior,
you will break a large number of installations.

If I recall correctly, the posting was about the "printer
username" that Karolin added and mixed case names in
/etc/passwd.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.




jerry
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