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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:03:32 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Simplify AD integration?
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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 AT yandex DOT ru) 31.07.2014, <02:01>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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