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Re: nss: hesiod -> ldap for groups?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Sun Mar 15 17:42:12 2009

Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:41:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, Jacob Morzinski <morzinski@mit.edu>,
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Mitchell E Berger wrote:
> if I do what we did on the Athena 9 implementation of this server 
> (create a local group and enumerate the users in /etc/group{.local}) 
> nss-nonlocal will punt the users from the group when they log in with 
> their Athena account.

No it won’t.  That should work just fine.

nss_nonlocal prevents nonlocal users from gaining local credentials for 
nonlocal reasons.  /etc/group is a local reason, so it is allowed.

Anders


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