I'm trying to troubleshoot an obscure authentication error and need some background information.
Is there any difference between how Windows (and programs like Outlook) process DOMAIN\username and [email protected]?
What are the proper terms for these two username formats?
Edit: In particular, are there any differences in how Windows authenticates the two username formats?
I'm interested in finding out what people's experiences with standard usernames is. I've always been in places that used {firstInitial}{lastname} (sometimes with a length-limit). Now I've users that want {firstname}.{lastname} - and now it comes up that the period may cause problems.
Specifically:
UPDATE: The reason I didn't mention specifics is that I wanted to be general enough to handle anything that might come up in the future. However, that may be too general of a requirement (anything can happen, right?).
This is our environment: Ubuntu Server Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and up, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (with Active Directory in Windows 2000 Native Mode), Zimbra 7.x for mail, and OpenLDAP in the near future.
UPDATE: I should mention (for completeness) that I saw this question (though it didn't answer my asked question) and also this web post, both of which were very informative.
Is there a way to pass the username and password from a file instead of the command line via --user and --password?
Background: I want to run wget via cron and don't want the username/password show up in process view
What's the difference between useradd and adduser? When/why should I prefer using one or the other?
I'm setting up up a new MySQL server and I'd like to give it the same set of usernames, allowed hosts, and passwords as an existing server (which is going away).
Would it work to just do a dump of the users table and then load it on the new server?
Is there a better way than that?