Re: simple user remap question

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:08:13AM -0600, scott hollatz wrote:
> We've been using perdition in production since early 2003 and has worked
> great with over 70K users configured.
> 
> We need to remap userA --> userB but we don't have the username_from_database
> option set and our database has simple entries, basically username key
> and realhost (e.g., userA xyz.d.umn.edu).
> 
> We can set username_from_database and rewrite the database entries
> as 'userA userB*xyz.d.umn.edu', where '*' is the domain delimiter,
> but this will create an outage during the update, and we only need to 
> remap around 50 users.
> 
> Question:  If username_from_database is set and some users have entries like
> 'userA userB*xyz.d.umn.edu' and some have 'userC xyz.d.umn.edu' or maybe
> 'userC *xyz.d.umn.edu', will or can perdition use userC, as in the latter
> case, if the name in the server portion is empty?
> 
> We don't have a test system otherwise I would try it...

Hi Scott,

I just looked over the code and yes I believe that will work.
Essentially perdition only uses the username from the database
if username_from_database is set and there is a username in the database.


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