Migrate users

[Simon Wilson]

> Only one issue that I am having with the new 2.4.17 install.
>
> I use unixhierarchysep: 1 and have a couple of users with a "." in  
> their name, e.g. deb.tony. The cyrus folder on the partition for  
> them is deb^tony, although they appear in cyradm etc as deb.tony.
>
> They auth OK to the system through Horde, which authenticates them  
> to LDAP and IMAP. Log entry showing the Horde server logging them in:
>
> imap[28530]: login: emp06.simonandkate.lan [192.168.1.230] deb.tony  
> PLAIN+TLS User logged in SESSIONID=<emp07-28530-1501054728-1>
>
> Then I get a log entry with them as deb^tony:
>
> imap[28530]: USAGE deb^tony user: 0.006688 sys: 0.004995
>
> But nslcd triggers errors every 10 to 15 minutes:
>
> Jul 26 13:11:53 emp07 nslcd[922]: [c5eb19] <passwd="deb^tony">  
> request denied by validnames option
> Jul 26 13:11:53 emp07 nslcd[922]: [fb6a0e] <group/member="deb^tony">  
> request denied by validnames option
>
> IMAP is the only thing I know on the system that uses "deb^tony", so  
> I was wondering why I'm getting the errors?
>
> The user can logon ok (always through Horde's IMAP connection), use,  
> send emails ok...
>
> I changed the validnames regex in nslcd to accept a ^ but I assume  
> that's just hiding the problem, not fixing it. There is nothing in  
> my LDAP logs that indicates any failure.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Simon
>

Anyone got any ideas on this, or can I safely ignore with my 'hack/fix'?

Thanks

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Simon Wilson
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