Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
From: Richard Knuckey (richardk@iprolink.co.nz)
Date: Wed Mar 18 1998 - 16:26:38 EST
At 6:26 am +1200 19/3/98, Christopher C. Petro wrote:
>At 10:58 AM -0600 3/17/98, Eric KieslingThompson wrote:
>>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).
sendmail will not work if you have mixed case usernames. ie you will not be
able to send user "Richard" mail as most sendmail configurations will
convert this to richard and try to send mail to that user.
samba also converts names to lowercase.
An alternative for netatalk+asun is to set up your gecos information
corectly with the users real name. netatalk will match against that as well
as the login name, so you can use proper names on the Mac.
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