Re: rev 901 of ldm-trunk

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:09 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:23:38PM -0400, Gideon Romm wrote:
> > I think rev 901 breaks the functionality when the group name has
> > multiple words (as in "Domain Users").  This was why I was trying to
> > avoid storing the groups in a variable, because it removes the ability
> > to distinguish between distinct arguments and multi-word arguments.
> 
> ah, i had no idea spaces were allowed in group names. 
> 
> seems like when i try to create a group with a space in it:
> 
>   # addgroup "test group"
>   addgroup: To avoid problems, the username should consist only of
>   letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, and not
>   start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). For
>   compatibility with Samba machine accounts $ is also supported at the
>   end of the username
> 
>   # groupadd "test group"
>   groupadd: test group is not a valid group name
> 
> what situations do you encounter group names with spaces in them?

ActiveDirectory/Windows domains based setup:

stgraber@vagonbrei:~$ id stgraber
uid=1002(stgraber) gid=513(Domain Users) 512(Domain Admins),
513(Domain Users)

That's Windows built-in groups.

> 
> live well,
>   vagrant

Stéphane

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