[Samba] unix group membership -- broken in 3.0.23c?

simo idra at samba.org
Fri Nov 17 15:45:48 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 07:23 -0800, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Dmitry Karasik wrote:
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> >    &                - NIS only
> >    +"Unix Group\"   - unix groups only
> >    ???????          - winbind only
> >    +                - winbind and unix groups
> >    ???????          - NIS and winbind
> >    ???????          - NIS and unix groups
> >    @,&+,+&          - All three
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> In my opinion.  Both the '@' and '&' are deprecated.  Only the '+'
> character is valid these days.    The '+' simply says "do a
> getgrnam() call to lookup the group."

Jerry we still make calls into netgroups. With @ at least as I
presonally tested the code recently.

Simo.

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