[1880] in Moira
Re: group, etc suffixes in AD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danilo Almeida)
Fri Oct 12 20:39:19 2001
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From: "Danilo Almeida" <dalmeida@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:39:04 -0400
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Further info:
> I noticed that the group suffix used in the SAM name for moira objects
> in AD is "_group". Isn't that going to cause a problem if a user in
> moira is called "a_group" or whatever? Shouldn't we be using a "."
> instead of a "_"?
To clarify, I'm talking about the sAMAccountName attribute.
> Also, it just occurred to me that we might have issues in AD if a machine
> name is the same as a user name... We need to figure that out.
Ok, a false alarm. It looks like the sAMAccountName attribute for computer
objects in AD has a trailing "$" (e.g., computername --> computername$).
However, they are also truncated to 15 characters before getting the
trailing "$". This ties into the long machine name issue we're
investigating.
- Danilo
