Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
From: Michael A. Erickson (miericks@maxwell.psy.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 17 1998 - 10:57:13 EST
> YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
>
> Thank you for the tip. I changed the passwd file username entry so that it
> started with a small, instead of cap, and it worked. In addition, the
> chooser login name still started with a cap, just as you had indicated.
>
>
> But this is a problem, right? Why is it doing this?
I took a real quick look at auth.c in the afpd source, and it goes
through the username and makes it all lower case.
Actually, I consider this a feature as long as it's documented. I'm
pretty sure that macintosh usernames are case insensitive. Thus, if
you ensure that all your passwd file entries are lower case, this
makes the afpd server more like a mac.
This might do well to make it into a readme or a faq if it's not
already there. (I couldn't find it, but I have had pretty bad luck
geting info on netatalk outside of this list.)
\MaE
Michael A. Erickson
erickson@cmu.edu
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