[Samba] Supplementary Group Changes

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:58:45PM -0600, Jon Delheimer wrote:
> Is there a signal that can be sent to the smbd process, or some other 
> method to tell smbd to reload the user's supplementary unix groups? We 
> do not use Windows Domains and all access to files is controlled using 
> Linux ACLs and supplementary groups defined using a web interface. 
> Currently, when a new posix group is created and given access to a 
> folder, the members of the group do not gain access unless their 
> associated smbd process is killed first. Although this works, it's a bit 
> disruptive.

This could be done by adding a message to smbcontrol to tell an smbd
to do this. Programming this is left as an excersise for the reader :-).

Jeremy.