Subject: RE: [netatalk-admins] Problem with passwd case
From: Craig Robinson (craig@qimr.edu.au)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 18:55:54 EDT
Dylan (and all Netatalkers reading this),
I think you might be right...but I have ventured into the thread and have
come across a couple of issues. Firstly, in my original post, I said that
the version of netatalk was 1.4b2+asun2.1.4. It is actually netatalk-990130
(sorry for the mis-information, we have never had 1.4b2 working!!). The
issues discussed in the thread refer to 1.4b2, and I have tried to locate
the patch in auth.c that Michael Erickson talks about in:
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/archive/admins/1998/0614.html
to no avail. I also don't know if it has been patched by a sun as referred
to in:
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/archive/admins/1998/0620.html
or even how to get this patch, or whether it applies to 990130 or only a
sun's builds (I'm not sure about all these versions and I'll post another
mail about all this).
Anyway, my first question:
1. Do you know how to patch auth.c in 990130?
2. Or where I can get a patch for it?
Now I know what is happening, I can get around it - but I would prefer not
to go and change the case of the usernames of all my users. So, any
further thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated?
Cheers, Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Dylan Adams [SMTP:dadams@jhu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:11 AM
To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Problem with passwd case
If I remember correctly, Netatalk enforces appletalk's case insensitive
user names by downcasing the username entered in the chooser before
comparing it to those in /etc/passwd.It was disscussed a while ago on the
list. Thread starts
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/archive/admins/1998/0572.html
There's a patch to remove the downcasing code a few messages down.
Dylan
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