samba - Jan 2004 - Featurerequest: LDAPgroups as groupOfUniqeNames

Hi,

This might be a featurerequest for 4.0, but I would be happy if it could
go into 3.1 or something.

I would be very happy if Samba could add the DNs of a user instead of
his/her uid to a sambaGroup, thus using the groupOfUniqe names
objectclass for administering groups. 

This would make groups inline with the LDAP consept of groups and make
it possible to use them in ACLs etc.

Tarjei

> This might be a featurerequest for 4.0, but I would be happy if it could
> go into 3.1 or something.
> I would be very happy if Samba could add the DNs of a user instead of
> his/her uid to a sambaGroup, thus using the groupOfUniqe names
> objectclass for administering groups. 
Since group add/remove is managed via a script, can't it do that now? 
Just use the UID to look up the DN, and add the DN; verses adding the
UID.
> This would make groups inline with the LDAP consept of groups and make
> it possible to use them in ACLs etc.
RFC2307bis already does this on the POSIX side, and is supported by
nss_ldap.

So what you want already exists, today.