From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24056 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2014 23:07:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24036 invoked by uid 89); 17 Jun 2014 23:07:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp4-g21.free.fr Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (HELO smtp4-g21.free.fr) (212.27.42.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:07:41 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.11] (unknown [78.224.52.79]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B154C807B; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 01:07:39 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) Subject: Re: gecos from AD? (was Re: timeout in LDAP access) From: Denis Excoffier In-Reply-To: <20140617125154.GR23700@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:07:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20140617100011.GL23700@calimero.vinschen.de> <20140617103014.GP23700@calimero.vinschen.de> <20140617125154.GR23700@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00248.txt.bz2 On 2014-06-17 14:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 12:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 17 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jun 16 22:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' >>>> happily produces lines with some extra =91:=92, in particular when the >>>> gecos field itself contains =91:=92. >>>=20 >>> Wow, that *is* important. All fields returned from the server have to >>> get their colons converted to commas. I'll fix that. >=20 > On second thought, removing colons should only occur for gecos. The > other fields shouldn't contain colons anyway since their content has to > be POSIX-compatible anyway. >=20 > So, either I add code to remove the colons from the gecos field =85 This. >=20 >=20 >> While we're at it... do we really need the gecos info? Cygwin fills >> out this field with the Windows username and SID info for internal >> purposes, and then adds the gecos info from AD. However, it's just >> informational and usually only used by the finger(1) tool. >>=20 >> Shall I just remove fetching the gecos fields from AD entirely? >=20 > ... or that. Not that. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple