On Apr 15 03:00, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > For clarity: There is no "looking for users first at"... capability at > > all. The user is searched via the functions LookupAccountSid and > > LookupAccountName and they decide by themselves in what order to look. > > Got it. > > >> Environment variable to specify/override default domain on the fly. > > > You mean, for deciding which domain goes unprepended? That would be in > > the nsswitch.conf file, but it would be possible to implement that. > > But does it make sense? Yet another configuration variable? > > Look at it from the usability standpoint. The problem is not the separator > character, the problem is the ambiguity of the account names in certain > situations.
What amiguity exactly? Care to make up a dirt simple example? > Yes, one of the solutions is to implement a separator character that doesn't > conflict with current functionality, but satisfy the requirement to be a > distinguished separation character. That would be '+'. And, in a way, the backslash could do as well. If it works for Samba as default... I'm pretty torn, right now. This is one of the "features" of such a solution where you simply can't do it right for all users. So I guess I should better stick to a configurable default. Sigh. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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