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

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Nov 17 15:52:59 GMT 2006


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simo wrote:
> 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
>> 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.

I know.  But IMO NIS support itself should be deprecated.





cheers, jerry
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