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

simo idra at samba.org
Fri Nov 17 16:04:45 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:03 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:55:28AM -0500, simo wrote:
> > I am starting thinking that maybe we should allow for a modular
> > interface here, so that people can use what they prefer, for access
> > control.
> 
> Not sure about this. We just went through great pains to
> convert stuff to a NT-Token based model, I don't feel like
> changing this radically again. The NIS stuff is the last
> remains of the "old" name-based model, and the sooner we get
> rid of that the better I think.

I know, in fact I don;t want to propose anything like that right now.

But a modular interface were we can pass the raw data and let the module
decide how to apply policies, names, sids, uid/gids, may be a good
thing.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
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