[PATCH] groups in ldap

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Mar 18 10:24:40 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 21:18, Volker Lendecke wrote:
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> > > But if you look at sambaAccount, it firmly ties 'uid' with 'rid',
> > > which conflicts your point below.
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> > No, it doesn't.  'uid' is 'username' in ldap-speak.
> 
> Yes, I know. And I meant it this way. I only assumed that under Unix
> we have a one-to-one mapping between username and numeric uid.
> 
> > We should not store the 'gid' as part of SambaGroup.  That really is
> > idmap's problem (which might refer back to exactly the same record - but
> > they need to be conceptually seperated).
> 
> We need a STRUCTURAL object to attach to. Should we make the
> sambaGroupMapping structural? This would make it stand-alone, but we
> could then not tie it to a posixGroup. If we make it AUXILIARY, we
> need another STRUCTURAL object to attach to. Which one?

Why not both?

ie, have a 'structural' that contains nothing, and hang the 'real' class
off that if we don't have anything else to hang it off.

Andrew Bartlett

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