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Re: Types of Groups, Structural objects and Inheritance



Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Brendan Kearney wrote:
>>> As a caveat to my ACLs, most of my groups are the posixGroup class.
>>> from what i understand, that means i need to use set ACLs, instead of
>>> group ACLs.
>>
>> I guess you're talking about RFC2307 vs. RFC2307bis posixGroup definition.
>>
>>> In my searching, i have found an explicit reason to keep using the
>>> posixGroup type, as NFSv4 ACLs can only use posixGroup types of groups.
>>> the dependency is because of the use of memberUid attributes.
>>
>> Well, so I'll keep my custom hybrid group schema for now:
>>
>> objectclass ( some-custom-oid-here
>>    NAME 'hybridPosixGroup'
>>    DESC 'Group for mixed group schema RFC 2307 and RFC 2307bis'
>>    STRUCTURAL
>>    SUP ( groupOfNames $ posixGroup ) )
>>
>> The caveat is that you have to synchronously maintain attributes 'member' and
>> 'memberUID'. In my deployments web2ldap does that for me.
> 
> There is no reason to maintain both. pam_ldap/nss_ldap both support RFC2307bis
> natively, as do nssov and nss-pam-ldapd.

In some environments you do not control the configuration of all (legacy) clients.

Ciao, Michael.


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