[PATCH] Expanding nested groups in winbindd_getgrnam()

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jun 13 17:54:12 GMT 2007


On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:33:16PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> The names are confusing but "windows nested groups"
> implements the NT4 model of local groups (e.g.
> BUILTIN\Administrators).  The "winbind expand groups"
> patch unrolls nested domain groups.

Why have a parameter for that at all? I would consider this
to be a plain bug. I've also read somewhere that the nesting
limit for Windows global groups is 128, so we could stop
there.

Volker
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