[Samba] unix group membership -- broken in 3.0.23c?

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Nov 17 15:56:44 GMT 2006


On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:45:48AM -0500, simo wrote:
> > In my opinion.  Both the '@' and '&' are deprecated.  Only the '+'
> > character is valid these days.    The '+' simply says "do a
> > getgrnam() call to lookup the group."
> 
> Jerry we still make calls into netgroups. With @ at least as I
> presonally tested the code recently.

Sure, these still work. But FC5 for example just segfaults
if you call innetgr(), so the use of netgroups seems to be
neglected even by RedHat.

Volker
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