Re: [Samba] Winbind, pam_mkhomedir.so problem with long usernames
Hi, read the recent thread on vampire, there we discussed the question, if usernames with spaces work on Linux. For example useradd hello world won't work on any Linux system around me here (various SuSE). So maybe you just have bad luck (sorry to tell you, but having usernames with spaces can be only a MS invention) ? Or maybe you can use the username map feature to map Jon Doe to Jon_Doe in Samba ? Or maybe write a patch to do that on a lower level ? Regards, Schlomo On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Horacio Vico wrote: Hi, I've been succesfully connecting my SuSE Linux (since version 9.0) to my organization's NT domain using Samba's Winbind. The thing is multiple users use my PC, not only myself. Though it was also necessary to setup my pam.d to automatically create their home folders at first logon (using pam_mkhomedir.so). My NT user is something like jdoe but there are some users that have this kind of usernames: John Doe (notice the space between John an Doe). When I log into a terminal with this kind of users the home folder is created successfully and I can log in and work normally. The problem is with KDM, when I try to log in with this users it just does not work, it tries to look for preferences into /home/john instead of /home/john\ doe . That is really annoying because I cannot manuallyassign a home folder for every user that could work on this PC. I am the only user inside this organization that uses Linux on its computer, and if I cannot make this work I'll have to switch to Windows :=( . Please help -- Regards, Schlomo -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Winbind, pam_mkhomedir.so problem with long usernames
Schlomo Schapiro: read the recent thread on vampire, there we discussed the question, if usernames with spaces work on Linux. For example useradd hello world won't work on any Linux system around me here (various SuSE). So maybe you just have bad luck (sorry to tell you, but having usernames with spaces can be only a MS invention) ? Or maybe you can use the username map feature to map Jon Doe to Jon_Doe in Samba ? Or maybe write a patch to do that on a lower level ? Names with spaces can be made to work work with LDAP (i.e. CN=John Doe, UID=jdoe (and is for that matter already more or less implemented with the smbldap-tools for groups) but it's *a bad idea* and will break many tender things, complicate others unnecessarily. Posix-based systems were never meant for this. --Tonni -- mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.billy.demon.nl -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Winbind, pam_mkhomedir.so problem with long usernames
Hi, I've been succesfully connecting my SuSE Linux (since version 9.0) to my organization's NT domain using Samba's Winbind. The thing is multiple users use my PC, not only myself. Though it was also necessary to setup my pam.d to automatically create their home folders at first logon (using pam_mkhomedir.so). My NT user is something like jdoe but there are some users that have this kind of usernames: John Doe (notice the space between John an Doe). When I log into a terminal with this kind of users the home folder is created successfully and I can log in and work normally. The problem is with KDM, when I try to log in with this users it just does not work, it tries to look for preferences into /home/john instead of /home/john\ doe . That is really annoying because I cannot manuallyassign a home folder for every user that could work on this PC. I am the only user inside this organization that uses Linux on its computer, and if I cannot make this work I'll have to switch to Windows :=( . Please help -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
