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Re: Simplify AD integration?


On 07/31/2014 07:26 AM, D. Boland wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief
>> answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should
>> proceed:
>>
>> 1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names
>>    or shall we keep it?
>>
>> 2. Shall we stick to '+' as the separator char or choose another one?
>>    If so, which one?
>>
>> 3. Shall we keep the `db_prefix' variability or choose one of
>>    the prefixing methods and stick to it?  If so, which one, auto,
>>    primary, or always?
> 
> I'm a legacy man. So I would say keep the MS symbol and use it like this \daniel,
> \SYSTEM, etc.

But you'd have to write that as '\daniel' or \\daniel in the shell, and
you also cripple tilde expansion.  That's why we already ruled out :, \,
and / as non-starters, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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