FeedbackNeeded -- Re: [Samba] Winbind and case sensitivity (revisited)

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Tom Shaw wrote:

| I've had a look through the archives and found
| this discussion on winbind and case sensitivity:
| http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-February/080321.html
...
| The issue is that winbind will in some cases return
| a username capitalized as per the NT database (ie when
| the user is looked up by uid), and in other cases as
| per the way the user typed it (ie when the
| user is looked up by username). This has cause problems
| for me in integrating a Unix system into a Windows
| environment.
|
| Has anyone done any work on making a patch like the
| one Andrew Bartlett proposed?

Andrew and I spoke about this briefly on IRC last week
while debugging a different winbindd bug.  It would be
a pretty trivial change but one that would have a
large impact on existing sites I think.

So the question is how many installations will break if
winbindd all of a sudden starts lower casing usernames?

If I can be adequate feedback on this, we'll consider
making the change.






cheers, jerry
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