[SSSD] [PATCHES] Handle case-sensitivity issues

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Nov 16 20:41:19 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 11:42 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Patch 0001: Make the sysdb user and group names case-sensitive
> POSIX requires that usernames be case-sensitive. This will make the
> sysdb and cache compliant.

Nack, I don't see code to upgrade an existing database.

> Patch 0002: Add force_lowercase_names option for domains
> 
> Since POSIX usernames must be case-sensitive, but remote servers do
> not,
> it is possible for entries on the server to have different
> capitalization in different uses. For those systems where this is the
> case, SSSD will now offer an option to force all user and group names
> to
> lowercase, which should eliminate inconsistencies.
> 
> p.s. Don't be frightened by the size of Patch 0002. Most of the patch
> consists of new tests for this functionality.

Can you please split the tests patch into a separate third one so that I
can review them more easily ?

Simo.


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