"winbind normalize names = yes" anyone?

Volker Lendecke vl at samba.org
Tue Jan 3 13:21:53 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 01:27:38PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Anybody out there actually using this feature? To me the
> implementation looks pretty fragile, I can not promise we correctly
> do it everywhere.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9946 is a pretty precise
description of the state of affairs I guess.

Executive summary from the bug:

> I hoped this could be solved using samba option "winbind normalize
> names = yes" but actually this features seems to have more problems
> than it solves.

Volker



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