s4-param: +foo syntax

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Dec 8 04:54:37 MST 2010


On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:46:52PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I guess we will need to add another list type/exception if we decide to
> continue to support the + syntax for groups in valid users (which does
> not exist in the source4 code at the moment anyway). 
> 
> That said, I think this parameter is terribly overloaded, and given that
> all the examples I've ever seen are for @group, and that NIS for which
> the difference mattered is effectively dead, I think we should simply
> decline to support + and & for 4.0, if we can't come up with a better
> replacement for the whole 'valid users' thing. 

Please don't do that, please keep up the + syntax.

Volker


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