"winbind normalize names = yes" anyone?

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Jan 3 17:10:58 UTC 2017


On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:21:53 CET Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 01:27:38PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > Anybody out there actually using this feature? To me the
> > implementation looks pretty fragile, I can not promise we correctly
> > do it everywhere.
> 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9946 is a pretty precise
> description of the state of affairs I guess.

It is used, but I'm voting to remove it. It can lead to strange results and is 
mostly broken since Samba 3.5.


People should fix there scripts to deal with spaces if necessary.



	Andreas


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