[Samba] Active directory, winbind, and distribution groups (as
opposed to security groups)
simo
idra at samba.org
Wed Mar 21 13:25:59 GMT 2007
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 13:41 +0100, Vincent Deffontaines wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is about a samba installation plugged on Active directory.
>
> I would like to bounce on :
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-January/099472.html
>
> I understand distribution groups are not "real" groups, as Unix people
> mean them. Distribution groups are, by design, only related to mailing
> lists, or so.
>
> My question is pretty simple :
> Is there a way to list the security groups of a domain?
>
> "getent group" as well as "wbinfo -g" list both security and
> distribution groups.
>
> Either a command line switch on wbinfo, or a smb.conf parameter would be
> good, in order to list only security groups.
>
> Since I have not found this in the docs, does this exist? Does this
> question make sense?
If getent group lists distribution groups, we may have a bug, are you
sure of that?
Simo.
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