[SSSD] [PATCH] NSS: Don't ignore backslash in usernames with ldap provider

Lukas Slebodnik lslebodn at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 12:22:11 UTC 2015


On (02/09/15 14:10), Sumit Bose wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:23:11PM +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>> On (31/08/15 21:01), Sumit Bose wrote:
>> >On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:23:29AM +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>> >> ehlo,
>> >> 
>> >> please review attached patch for regression #2772
>> >> 
>> >> LS
>> >
>> >Hi Lukas,
>> >
>> >thank you for taking care of the issue.
>> >
>> >The patch is working as expected without breaking the SID lookups and
>> >passes the CI http://sssd-ci.duckdns.org/logs/job/23/92/summary.html so
>> >ACK.
>> >
>> >I just want to mention that in the old version it was possible to change
>> >global_names pattern by setting re_expression in the [sssd] section of
>> >sssd.conf. But given the current usage for global_names I can hardly
>> >imagine any reason why the pattern should be changed.
>> >
>> I'm little bit confused.
>> 
>> Should we implement overriding global_names with re_expression
>> in the [sssd] section? Is there a valid use-case?
>> 
>> OR
>> 
>> Is better that users cannot override it?
>> 
>> I think it's late for downstream but we can file at least upstream ticket.
>
>no, the current state is fine. As said I cannot think of a use-case, if
>there is one coming up later we can add an option to change global_names
>then.
>
Thank you very much for clarification.

LS


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