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Re: /svn/athena r25083 - in trunk/debathena/debathena/libnss-nonlocal: . debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Mar 31 09:13:22 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:13:13 -0400
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To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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> +• If the local group ‘nss-nonlocal-users’ exists, then nonlocal users
> + will be automatically added to it. Furthermore, if a local user is
> + added to this group, then that user will inherit any nonlocal gids
> + from a nonlocal user of the same name, as supplementary gids.
> +
> +• If the local group ‘nss-local-users’ exists, then local users will
> + be automatically added to it.
> +
> +• If the local user ‘nss-nonlocal-users’ is added to a local group,
> + then the local group will inherit the nonlocal membership of a group
> + of the same gid.
The fact that the functionality in the first paragraph goes by username but the 3rd paragraph does by gid is slightly confusing, but *shrug*.
This change also means that local users who were manually added to nss-nonlocal-users will also be interpreted as having a mail domain of "mit.edu" when they send mail. Which is almost certainly correct, but worth noting.
-Jon
