Primary Group SID

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 06:21, Bostjan Golob wrote:
> I hacked together a little patch for the LDAP backend that resolves a
> user's primary gid into a SID and uses that as the primary group SID. If
> the group has no mapping, the user gets the Domain Users group as the
> primary group.
> 
> This is just a quick proof-of-concept patch that probably needs some
> polishing and moving into a more general location. If people are
> satisfied with this patch, I'll make a more general one (a bit out of
> practice with samba code at the moment :).

I don't like the getpwnam() lookup.  Now I remember what happened to
this code...

I would prefer that we re-introduced the code to look at gidNumber, and
translate it on that basis.  If the group mapping does not exist, then
the algorithmic mapping should be used.

Andrew Bartlett

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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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