[K12OSN] smbldap - adding ldap users to local groups
Peter Scheie
peter at scheie.homedns.org
Thu Oct 25 19:07:17 UTC 2007
David Hopkins wrote:
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> That way I decide which local group matches up with which ldap group,
> but I only have to establish that relationship once on each machine.
> Unfortunately, local groups do not seem to accept other groups as
> members -- they only accept users. That is what my testing suggests,
> anyway.
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> Unfortunately, I think that is a rather correct perception. I have
> asked around and no one here knows of a way to embed groups like can be
> done with MS.
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Not being able to have groups within groups is a Unix thing; always been
that way, probably always will be. When you consider the permissions
model for Unix--user,group,other--it prevents circular things like group
A being a member of group B and group B being a member of group A.
Peter
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