Simplify AD integration?
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Wed Jul 30 22:05:00 GMT 2014
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> Do you mean
> builtin accounts; "NT AUTHORITY+SYSTEM", "BUILTIN+Administrators", ...
> primary domain "corinna", "cgf", ...
> other domain: "DOMAIN1+walter", "DOMAIN2+mathilda"
That sounds about right to me.
>> So it'd be
>> better to simply flag which groups to prefix, I'd think ("local", "primary",
>> "other") and specify this like symbolic modes in chmod, perhaps?
>>
>> > Bonus question:
>> >
>> > 4. Should Cygwin downcase all usernames when generating the Cygwin
>> > username, so, if your Windows username is 'Ralph', your Cygwin
>> > username will be 'ralph'?
>>
>> I'd be in favor of this since I've already had two users that wouldn't see
>> their home directories until I figured out that they'd have their names
>> capitalized in AD... as long as Windows is unable to distinguish users
>> based on the case there shouldn't be a problem.
I've got my lesson learned since I've tried to set up authorization server for
a wide range of devices at once. Since then, I _always_ make user names
lowercase. And pure alphabetic. So, I wouldn't notice a difference.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 31.07.2014, <02:01>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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