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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:23:52 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Frode Nordahl <frode@nordahl.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD nss, getgroupmembership(3)
Message-ID:  <20080107162352.GA9029@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <19D4AA5E-E076-4E70-A8B7-C9E2992C64D6@nordahl.net>
References:  <20060528173242.GC16530@katherina.student.utwente.nl> <9AB75EDF-A550-4823-B1F6-CA8AFFBC6821@nordahl.net> <20080107101050.GF20593@katherina.student.utwente.nl> <19D4AA5E-E076-4E70-A8B7-C9E2992C64D6@nordahl.net>

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In the last episode (Jan 07), Frode Nordahl said:
> On 7. jan.. 2008, at 11.10, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
>> a while back (or actually, more than a year back...) there was some
>> discussion in this thread about implementing getgroupmembership
>> support in FreeBSD NSS.
>> 
>> FYI, Michael Bushkov has commited support for this a few weeks back
>> based on work by me and largely by Michael Hanselmann. For now,
>> there is no support yet in the nss_ldap and nss_winbind modules, but
>> patches are already available.
>> 
>> Support will not be merged to 7.0, but hopefully it will be in 7.1.
>> 
>> See pr 115196 [1] for more details about it, and links to the
>> winbind/ldap patches.
>> 
>> Gr.
>> 
>> Matthijs
>> 
>> [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/115196
> 
> Thank you for letting me know, this is fantastic!! :-) A big thank
> you to everyone involved in making this happen.
> 
> I will attempt to put this to test in a production system in good
> time before 7.1 so any issues can be resolved before release.
> 
> Any chance the patch will apply on 6.x?

The mailinglist post mentioned in PR 115196 includes a patch for 6.x,
which also works just fine (with some conflict cleanup) on 5.x :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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