Simplify AD integration?

Thu Jul 31 14:17:00 GMT 2014

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 :, ,円
and / as non-starters, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
-- 
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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