[PATCHES v2] GPO support for client machine policy

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Dec 9 00:07:55 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 14:42 -0700, David Mulder via samba-technical
wrote:
> These patches add Group Policy support for client machines. Adds a
> winbind event that calls samba_gpoupdate to apply local machine
> policies. Adds the option "winbind gpupdate" to smb.conf, which
> determines whether group policy will be applied to the client.
> To start off, we only have Environment Variable policies.

Can we have a better name?  

perhaps "honour group policies" or "apply group policies"?

Also, what are the risks for a machine if an Environment Variable
policy was unexpectedly applied (to help us choose if we should have it
on by default)?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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