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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE wrote:

|> 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.
|
| Probably you're right here. But I have been close
| to proposing exactly that change several times now. This
| has bitten me way too often.
|
|> So the question is how many installations will break if
|> winbindd all of a sudden starts lower casing usernames?
|
| With a backward-compatibility parameter I would be fine
| with that. The question is whether to default to old or new
| behavior? If clearly described in the WHATSNEW I would prefer
| to default to new behavior, otherwise we can never make
| the change.

Hope about we document it very loudly in WHATSNEW.txt

And....

I'd be willing to include a conversion script to rename
all the directories and/or files that are based on the
username to lower case.

So that admins are (a) aware of the new behavior, and
(b) can convert existing setups ?

So would this be an acceptable solution ?




cheers, jerry
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