Dynamic groups (was Samba and groups > 16)

David Collier-Brown David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
Tue Mar 8 13:54:32 GMT 2005


Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> And not restricted to Samba, just a little more apparent here due to the 
> nature of how Windows administrators tends to sensibly divide user 
> access into groups.

	Yes, one of the classic uses of groups in Windows is
	to provide a mechanism resembling role-based access control,
	which is, IMHO, A Good Thing.

--dave (the RBAC, not the simulation, you understand!) c-b
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