[Samba] winbind usernames

[Matt Johnson]

 --- "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org> wrote: 
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> Matt Johnson wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm successfully using winbind to authenticate a
> | debian sarge workstation against an nt4 server.
> |
> | Works a treat.
> |
> | However, I have an odd situation where a user logs
> in
> | for the first time as "John Smith" and gets
> created a
> | "John Smith" directory in /home. *Then*, if they
> log
> | in as "john smith", they get a second directory
> | created as "john smith" in /home!
> |
> | (yes, our nt4 usernames have whitespace in them,
> and
> | yes, it's a headache - but that's another story)
> |
> | This is for a network of 600 pupils and teachers,
> who
> | cannot remember if they logged in lowercase,
> uppercase
> | or both.
> |
> | How can I either (i) enforce lowercase only, or
> (ii)
> | have winbind treat "John" and "john" the same?
> 
> This was fixed in a more recent release (3.0.9 ?
> maybe
> ....check the WHATSNEW) by internally converting all
> winbindd usernames and groups to lowercase
> regardless of
> what the user typed in.

*Much* obliged. Thanks. I did google, but didn't come
up with the search phrase that pays.

Thank you for this.

--
Matt


	
	
		
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