samba4, does primaryGroupID attribute result in group membership
without memberOf and member ?
Douglas VanLeuven
roamdad at sonic.net
Wed Mar 5 00:27:26 GMT 2008
Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:37 -0800, Douglas VanLeuven wrote:
>> Will someone confirm they see this behavior? Is this going to be a
>> difference between samba4 and MS AD forever? If so, I have to rewrite
>> some of my perl LDAP routines.
>>
>> Or is it my samba4 builds?
>>
>> After joining the domain, computer is listed as memberOf "Domain
>> Computers" but "Domain Computers" shows no members.
>>
>> Same is true for the domain controller and "Domain Controllers".
>>
>> Users have the "memberOf" attribute and groups have the "members"
>> attribute even for primary group of user.
>>
>> Has impact on group policy during boot.
>
> If we differ in behaviour from AD, then it's a bug. The group
> membership area is something that hasn't been the subject of great
> testing, so some help here would be useful.
>
> If you can help write up some tests to prove correct behaviour (ie
> passes against AD, fails against Samba4), then that will help fix this,
> and keep it fixed.
>
OK. Thanks. That answers a lot.
Have to learn how to write tests first. Oh joy!
Regards, Doug
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