[PATCH] Re: winbindd: Add option to preserve case of user names and groups

[Alexander Werth]

Hi,

could someone please comment on the patch below to add an option to
winbind to preserve the case of AD user names?

On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 16:39 +0200, Alexander Werth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've encountered an use case where the enforced canonicalization of user
> names and groups to lower case by winbind creates problems and written a
> patch to make this optional.
> The use case is the generation of user names from uid's and gid's for
> NFS4 ACLs on a system using winbind as nss backend.
> NFS4 clients are typically not case insensitive unless they are using
> winbind as well. In particular some nfs4 clients use nss ldap to resove
> the same names winbind get's from the AD.
> If the winbind on the server enforces lower case user and group names
> these names will not be recognized on the clients.
> Doing the canonicalization to lower case allows to cache the reverse
> lookup entries of the name to id lookups.
> Apparently an earlier attempt to always remove the enforced
> canonicalization to lower case had been rejected.
> Since both ways have their advantages I added an option to preserve the
> case of user names and group names.
> The default is to behave as we do now and not preserve the case.
> The attached patch applies to samba master.
> 
> Please share your thoughts or concerns.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexander Werth
> 
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