Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
From: Eric KieslingThompson (duetc@email.msn.com)
Date: Tue Mar 17 1998 - 11:58:46 EST
I'm beginning to feel the weight of my ignorance. I set up my accounts so
that certain types, e.g., shared types, start with smalls, and personal
accounts start with caps. Just a convenience for me. Some accounts are
accessed in multiple fashion: netatatalk, telnet, samba, etc.
Until now, I've had no problem with the cases of usernames. If mac networks
convert all to lowercase as you indicate, then you're right that this makes
the afpd server more like a mac server. In addition, I can see where it
would be additional overhead for afpd to try substituting cases, or whatever
else would be necessary to overcome this.
ummm, why did it work before?
I guess I'll go with the flow and convert usernames to lower case. Aside
from getting around this particular problem, I still don't understand why
usenames should "generally" be lowercase (that's the ignorance at work).
But if you say it, and if asun says it, that's good enough for me right now.
Luckily, I don't have too many to change, and the users should not have to
deal with any changes.
:)
Thanks for your help.
erict
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Erickson <miericks@maxwell.psy.cmu.edu>
To: Eric KieslingThompson <duetc@email.msn.com>
Cc: erickson@cmu.edu <erickson@cmu.edu>; netatalk-admins@umich.edu
<netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
>> 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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