----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs(a)redhat.com>, devel(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:19:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] REST-API - supported user name formats
>
> On 05/28/2014 05:16 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Do we need to support a format of user name like "profile\user" for
>> REST-API authentication? (if you're not familiar with the term profile, I
>> can ask the same about "domain\user"
>> I see in the code it exists, but I was wonder whether it is really needed.
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts on this,
>>
>> Yair
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> iirc, we only support the upn format for the rest api.
> assuming any authentication provider can be treated as a domain, and
> qualify for the upn format - why would we add the domain\user format?
I tend to agree, I was asking to see if someone has other knowledge.
domain\user authentication support is a relic from 2.x probably.
considering we are planning to move the gui to the rest api, worth
highlighting its going to be deprecated from the gui as well probably.