[Samba] LDAP Q: What for use Containers
malte.mueller at ewetel.net
malte.mueller at ewetel.net
Tue Apr 20 15:20:06 GMT 2004
Zitat von Schlomo Schapiro <schlomo at schapiro.org>:
> Hi,
>
> well, on NDS and Netware you could give file system access rights to a
> container and then all users in that container would inherit these rights.
> BTW, Windows and AD also cannot do this.
My assumptions:
Samba can not doe this as nss/the resolver libs cannot do this. Even worse: for
the same reason you can't have truely nested groups (though samba does support
that a bit).
I wish, someone would tell me, I'm wrong.
Regards,
Malte Mueller
>
> Basically it is a way to not use groups but assign information to objects
> based on their position in the LDAP tree. I can imagine many more uses,
> e.g. default servers, logon servers, share access rights, ...
>
> The point is, is there any use of the hierarchical structure of the LDAP
> directory for Samba ? Or does Samba use the LDAP dir only like flat file
> or SQL DB ?
>
> AFAIK there is not yet much or maybe any support for such settings, but I
> want to discuss why not and wether others find it a useful thing to have.
>
> Regards,
> Schlomo
>
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Paul Gienger wrote:
>
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