[X2go-dev] Bump LDAP / AD / Pulseaudio related login issues

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 12:57 +0100, Robert Schumann wrote:
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> Heyho guys,
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> since nobody responded to my mail I sent on the 7th of February I'd like
> to bring that topic up again.
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> While I'm totally agreeing with you that there are other important
> problems to solve, I consider the lack of a proper login in bigger
> networks a major showstopper for your project. It can only be of your
> interest, that people in a LDAP/AD configuration with usernames like
> DOMAIN\USER are able to use your services. I pointed out, that it's
> probably just a few fixes away from a solution.
> 
> I'm understanding that your test case focusses on local users in some
> kind of databases, but however... I hardly see this as a "normal
> environment" in every company or organization which might want to use
> x2go. Really nobody is using local user databases on some Linux machine
> for storing user information and accounts except for Bob and Alice maybe.
> 
> If any of you likes to investigate this issue I can provide an writable
> x2go server and a domain account to test things out and find fixes for
> that.
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I do vaguely recall your post.  If I recall correctly, it had to do with
certain characters.  I forget if it was "@" or "\". I do know that we
use LDAP for authenticating all our X2Go users and integrate our LDAP
with AD - John