Samba 3.0.8 Available for Download

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Nov 9 16:50:23 GMT 2004


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Dominique Leducq wrote:
| Le Lundi 8 Novembre 2004 18:36, Gerald (Jerry) Carter a écrit :
|
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|> Change in Winbindd Behavior
|> ---------------------------
|>
|> All usernames returned by winbindd are now converted to lower
|> case for better consistency.  This means any winbind installation
|> relying on the winbind username will need to rename existing
|> directories and/or files based on the username (%u and %U) to lower
|> case (e.g. mv $name `echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`).  This may
|> include mail spool files, home directories, valid user lines in
|> smb.conf, etc....
|>
|>
| Is there any configuration option to keep the old behavior ?

Nope.  The old behavior caused a lot of problems and was
considered a bug.  What problem does this present to you ?
Other than upgrade hassles?






cheers, jerry
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