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Hello,

AD is case-aware but case-insensitive. All of our usernames are
returned as uppercase from LDAP, and NMC appears to enforce username
case sensitivity so all logins into NMC have to be conducted for us in
upper case. This is a little annoying if only because it is different
from every other service we have that offers auth against LDAPv3. Any
tips on how to disable it? I can't find anything in the Administration
Guide.

Thank you,
Eugene


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I doubt you will find anything that shuts off the exactness that
Networker requires. It is this exactness that originally drew some of
the military agencies to it. You could have 16 servers named toto.
Toto
TOto
TOTo
TOTO
And that would be 4 different servers.

On the other hand if you do find something let me know. You may be able
to find a utility to rename your servers to force all lower case. /shrug
I hope this is helpful.

Semper fidelis et paratus, /ALE


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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:07 PM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] NMC and AD/LDAP case sensitivity

Hello,

AD is case-aware but case-insensitive. All of our usernames are
returned as uppercase from LDAP, and NMC appears to enforce username
case sensitivity so all logins into NMC have to be conducted for us in
upper case. This is a little annoying if only because it is different
from every other service we have that offers auth against LDAPv3. Any
tips on how to disable it? I can't find anything in the Administration
Guide.

Thank you,
Eugene


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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Eddie Albert
<Eddie.Albert < at > citizensfla.com> wrote:
You could have 16 servers named toto.
Toto
TOto
TOTo
TOTO
And that would be 4 different servers.

I'm not sure this is true in our (or anyone's?) DNS configuration.
Maybe this is by configuration choice, I'm not looking at the RFCs
right now.

On the other hand if you do find something let me know. You may be able
to find a utility to rename your servers to force all lower case. /shrug
I hope this is helpful.

Are we still talking about LDAPv3 user names for NetWorker Management
Console? If AD is a LDAPv3 compliant directory service, and is
case-insensitive, then NMC is not a very good LDAPv3 client and should
be documented as such.

-Eugene


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