From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 10:45:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9700616A419 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:45:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from smtp2.powertech.no (smtp2.powertech.no [195.159.0.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B89713C474 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:45:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from dhcp7.xu.nordahl.net (dhcp7.xu.nordahl.net [195.159.148.126]) by smtp2.powertech.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07857C1491; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:21:07 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <19D4AA5E-E076-4E70-A8B7-C9E2992C64D6@nordahl.net> From: Frode Nordahl To: Matthijs Kooijman In-Reply-To: <20080107101050.GF20593@katherina.student.utwente.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:21:09 +0100 References: <20060528173242.GC16530@katherina.student.utwente.nl> <9AB75EDF-A550-4823-B1F6-CA8AFFBC6821@nordahl.net> <20080107101050.GF20593@katherina.student.utwente.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD nss, getgroupmembership(3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:45:24 -0000 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 wil 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? -- Frode Nordahl