[PATCH] Expanding nested groups in winbindd_getgrnam()
James Peach
jpeach at samba.org
Wed Jun 13 18:10:27 GMT 2007
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 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.
Please can we retain this parameter? Darwin does have true nested
groups, so I'm not sure that I would want this behaviour on be default
for Darwin.
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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org
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