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Re: group, etc suffixes in AD

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Oct 13 11:08:57 2001

Message-Id: <200110131508.LAA16540@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: "Danilo Almeida" <dalmeida@MIT.EDU>
cc: pismere-team@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:17:52 EDT."
             <07c401c1537c$7fc06590$1b011212@mit.edu> 
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:08:05 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>

>> 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 "_"?

   Maybe I'm confused, but "." is every bit as common in group names; if
you want to use a character that's illegal in listnames, you should look
at the badlistchars[] array in server/qsetup.pc in the moira tree.  

Garry

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