[Samba] Winbind and AD groups containing groups

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Nov 10 18:16:34 GMT 2006


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Charles J Gruener wrote:
> I tried searching through the archives, but was unable to find anything
> about this.
> 
> Everything regarding windbind and AD membership is working perfectly with
> one exception.  Here's an example of what I'm experiencing:
> 
> A group called "department_users" contains two groups "department_faculty"
> and "department_staff".  These two groups, "department_faculty" and
> "department_staff" contain users.
> 
> 'getent group department_faculty' returns:
> 
> department_faculty:x:9315:user1,user2,user3
> 
> 'getent group department_staff' returns:
> 
> department_staff:x:9316:user4,user5,user6
> 
> 'getent group department_users' returns:
> 
> department_users:x:9317:

Charles,  This is a known issue at the moment.  If we did
a limited amount of nested group expansion (one level for
example, would that be ok)?






cheers, jerry
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