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

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Sep 2 14:14:41 GMT 2004


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Tom Shaw wrote:

| Note that my original problem was fixed when I sent
| in this patch:
|
| http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-July/036575.html
|
| That said, I still think it would be useful to
| flatten usernames to lowercase in some cases.

Ironically it was this patch that broke winbindd in 3.0.6
for 'security = domain' in non-Samba domains.  Apparently
NT 4 DC's do not fill in the acct_name field in the net_samlogon
reply.  So anytime winbind_getpwnam() filled in information
from the netsamlogon_cache, the username would be NULL and
the getpwnam() call would return failure.

So i'll follow then "if you don't vote, you can't complain"
rule.  I'll work on flattening usernames to lower case.
And we'll provide some means up converting existing sites
to the new rule.





cheers, jerry
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