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RE: Simplify AD integration?
- From: Stephan Mueller <Stephan dot Mueller at microsoft dot com>
- To: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:23:09 +0000
- Subject: RE: Simplify AD integration?
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Eric Blake writes:
" How bad would it be to treat the window's DOMAIN\user as cygwin
" user@DOMAIN? Yes, it means string-splicing to rearrange strings when
" converting between the two forms, rather than just single-character
" replacement, but it might work.
Sounds reasonable to me. Consider also that modern(*) Windows
recognizes (prefers?) user@domain as equivalent to domain\user in
places. For example, when I log on, I can use either form in the user/
password dialog.
stephan();
(*) I use Windows 7 and 8