getpwnam/uid for group with ID_TYPE_BOTH

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Mon Sep 23 21:45:42 UTC 2019


Hi Rowland,

> On 23/09/2019 20:39, Christof Schmitt via samba-technical wrote:
>> The behavior of winbindd changed in regards to whether a group with
>> ID_TYPE_BOTH returns a fake user structure. This surfaced during a test
>> of creating files from a SMB client and then checking the ownership
>> directly on the file system.
>>
>> make testenv SELFTEST_TESTENV=ad_member_idmap_rid
>> is an environment that provides ID_TYPE_BOTH for testing.
> 
> Surely if that is a testenv, then it should be removed or modified, a
> Unix domain member using idmap_rid will not work in that way, using
> 'getent passwd' against a group returns nothing.

No, it did with 4.5 and that's how it's supposed to be.
That's exactly what ID_TYPE_BOTH is all about.

metze

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