Bug 15087 - netgroups support removed
Summary: netgroups support removed
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: File services (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jule Anger
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-06-07 12:54 UTC by Samuel Cabrero
Modified: 2022-06-28 06:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Patch for 4.15 next (18.82 KB, patch)
2022-06-10 10:14 UTC, Samuel Cabrero
jra: review+
Details
Patch for 4.16 next (18.82 KB, patch)
2022-06-10 10:46 UTC, Samuel Cabrero
jra: review+
Details

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Description Samuel Cabrero 2022-06-07 12:54:15 UTC
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
Comment 1 Samba QA Contact 2022-06-09 22:41:04 UTC
This bug was referenced in samba master:

dbf3d217e3424fae64d9bd00e4762dc4d2bda6c2
f74e284a9d7fa8dc45f22b70dcea27f1aa8bd232
21796ef8f807d88e01627dc993b757e251788980
b3034f1209a6c45873882415c4291dde7eee76db
Comment 2 Samuel Cabrero 2022-06-10 10:14:17 UTC
Created attachment 17338 [details]
Patch for 4.15 next
Comment 3 Samuel Cabrero 2022-06-10 10:46:03 UTC
Created attachment 17339 [details]
Patch for 4.16 next
Comment 4 Jeremy Allison 2022-06-10 17:38:30 UTC
Re-assigning to Jule for inclusion in 4.16.next, 4.15.next.
Comment 5 Jule Anger 2022-06-12 07:44:57 UTC
Pushed to autobuild-v4-{16,15}-test.
Comment 6 Samba QA Contact 2022-06-12 08:41:05 UTC
This bug was referenced in samba v4-15-test:

c567aa1dd9226e6d532d46a6dc1dba98a4ca2f73
e8a5a952868a3ac1503755e1993286ee181a98a0
f179184a2be2ddd38f463fcc12252f8d24e529f8
1f42a865fae50f7496e7588923b4258b2839ff60
Comment 7 Samba QA Contact 2022-06-12 10:17:07 UTC
This bug was referenced in samba v4-16-test:

16df1ed429d8d36ba7eeb39c6020b65160036b4d
cdbd540b7cbcc62930945c712bd6e384cec4ffcd
87f5949434512562e51fec1ff4fb84182ace7f0c
9bab57ae404cb31a9714d371e87622cc098704ef
Comment 8 Jule Anger 2022-06-12 15:07:08 UTC
Closing out bug report.

Thanks!
Comment 9 Samba QA Contact 2022-06-13 06:56:50 UTC
This bug was referenced in samba v4-16-stable (Release samba-4.16.2):

16df1ed429d8d36ba7eeb39c6020b65160036b4d
cdbd540b7cbcc62930945c712bd6e384cec4ffcd
87f5949434512562e51fec1ff4fb84182ace7f0c
9bab57ae404cb31a9714d371e87622cc098704ef
Comment 10 Samba QA Contact 2022-06-28 06:52:16 UTC
This bug was referenced in samba v4-15-stable (Release samba-4.15.8):

c567aa1dd9226e6d532d46a6dc1dba98a4ca2f73
e8a5a952868a3ac1503755e1993286ee181a98a0
f179184a2be2ddd38f463fcc12252f8d24e529f8
1f42a865fae50f7496e7588923b4258b2839ff60