The netgroups support was dropped together with NIS support, but there are still legit use cases where netgroups can be used without NIS infrastructure. After a discussion in samba technical to bring them back [1], patches will follow. [1] https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2022-June/137419.html
This bug was referenced in samba master: dbf3d217e3424fae64d9bd00e4762dc4d2bda6c2 f74e284a9d7fa8dc45f22b70dcea27f1aa8bd232 21796ef8f807d88e01627dc993b757e251788980 b3034f1209a6c45873882415c4291dde7eee76db
Created attachment 17338 [details] Patch for 4.15 next
Created attachment 17339 [details] Patch for 4.16 next
Re-assigning to Jule for inclusion in 4.16.next, 4.15.next.
Pushed to autobuild-v4-{16,15}-test.
This bug was referenced in samba v4-15-test: c567aa1dd9226e6d532d46a6dc1dba98a4ca2f73 e8a5a952868a3ac1503755e1993286ee181a98a0 f179184a2be2ddd38f463fcc12252f8d24e529f8 1f42a865fae50f7496e7588923b4258b2839ff60
This bug was referenced in samba v4-16-test: 16df1ed429d8d36ba7eeb39c6020b65160036b4d cdbd540b7cbcc62930945c712bd6e384cec4ffcd 87f5949434512562e51fec1ff4fb84182ace7f0c 9bab57ae404cb31a9714d371e87622cc098704ef
Closing out bug report. Thanks!
This bug was referenced in samba v4-16-stable (Release samba-4.16.2): 16df1ed429d8d36ba7eeb39c6020b65160036b4d cdbd540b7cbcc62930945c712bd6e384cec4ffcd 87f5949434512562e51fec1ff4fb84182ace7f0c 9bab57ae404cb31a9714d371e87622cc098704ef
This bug was referenced in samba v4-15-stable (Release samba-4.15.8): c567aa1dd9226e6d532d46a6dc1dba98a4ca2f73 e8a5a952868a3ac1503755e1993286ee181a98a0 f179184a2be2ddd38f463fcc12252f8d24e529f8 1f42a865fae50f7496e7588923b4258b2839ff60