FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com]
> Sent: August 4, 2003 11:56 AM
> > 
> > I like that idea.  If the username has either of the the forms:
> > 
> >     domain\username
> >     \\domain\username
> > 
> > we know to use a domain login.  If there's an "nt domain" 
> > entry, we know to use a domain login.  Else we use a normal 
> > server login.  That's unambiguous, nonredundant, and declarative.  
> 
> And already in CVS (from 0.60, I think... perhaps not well
> documented...)

Excellent!  What is the effect of "nt domain"?  

> IMHO \\domain\username is not as good cause it usually refer to file
> names, not username.

Acknowledged.  Forget I mentioned it.  

> > Microsoft logins may contain a '/', so we can't easily 
> > support "domain/username".  
> 
> Why '/' ? '\\' is not good ?

I think Samba allows '/', but I see no reason we should.  Backslashes tend
to be a support problem, because people often overlook the need for single
quotes or other escapes.  

What about username@domain?  Microsoft's rule as of 7.0 was that '@' could
not appear in a username, so if we see '@' we're safe inferring a domain
login.  

> In all tests I did it run (I never change a line...) so it work...
> So, we should remove "try server login", "try domain login" 
> and "domain"
> entry from FreeTDS (I suggest to leave and document as obsolete)

Agreed.  

--jkl
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