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

[simo]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 07:52 -0800, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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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.
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> I know.  But IMO NIS support itself should be deprecated.

I am starting thinking that maybe we should allow for a modular
interface here, so that people can use what they prefer, for access
control.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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