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Re: Simplify AD integration?


On Jul 30 17:29, Wolf Geldmacher wrote:
> Just a thought:
> 
> Is there anything preventing you from using the pathname conventions for
> user names?
> 
> I seem to remember having seen constructs like "domain/user" (or ./user for
> the local domain) e.g. in Samba and found this to be quite intuitive, up to
> and including the ability to drop a leading "./" for local names.

Consider:

  export USER="domain/user"
  export HOME="/home/$USER"

  cd $HOME

  cd ~domain/user<TAB>

This opens another can of worms.


Corinna

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