FW: Speed comp. TNG & 2.2.alpha (fwd)

[Andrew Bartlett]

Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Andrew Bartlett]
> > RedHat has this 'feature' whereby all users are automatically made
> > members of a private group - eg I (abartlet) have a primary group of
> > 'abartlet', of which nobody else is a member.
> 
> Yes, useful feature; Debian does this by default as well.
> 
> However, I believe at the moment it is incompatible with Samba
> including Samba-TNG.  In the NT world, users and groups (and aliases)
> all share the same namespace, so you can't have name collisions.  Samba
> does not yet deal with this situation gracefully -- although the issue
> has come up before (usual suggestion: groups that collide with users
> can be mangled with a fixed prefix or suffix that is assumed not to
> occur in usernames).
> 
> Peter

Well if the case of private groups could be simply exculded (they exist
only to make unix admin easier, they dont benifit NT), and system groups
excluded, this problem would just 'go away' in the vast majority of
installations.

It shouldn't be that hard to do, is it?

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au