[SSSD] [PATCH] fix nested groups

Jenny Galipeau jgalipea at redhat.com
Thu Dec 3 14:03:56 UTC 2009


Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:27 -0500, Jenny Galipeau wrote:
>   
>> Hey, can you give me these scenarios?  I have automated tests that
>> check 
>> that member and memberof attributes are removed when associated
>> groups 
>> and or user members are deleted.   I would like to expand these tests 
>> for regression testing of the problem.
>>     
>
> Ah yes very easy to test actually.
>
> This is the test I used:
> Create 5 groups A,B,C,D,E
> Create 5 users a,b,c,d,e
> Add each user to the corresponding group then add each group to another,
> this is the tree I end up with:
>
> BEWARE!! ASCII art follows :)
>
> A--a
> |
> \--B--b
>    |
>    \--C--c
>       |
>       \--D--d
>          |
>          \--E--e
>
> Therefore the memberof attrs for each user are:
>
> a -> A
> b -> A,B
> c -> A,B,C
> d -> A,B,C,D
> e -> A,b,C,D,E
>
>
> now delete group C
>
> the results must be:
>
> a -> A
> b -> A,B
> c -> none
> d -> D
> e -> D,E
>
> If they are different there is a bug.
>
> Simo.
>
>
>
>
>   
Thanks Simo, I'll add this test today!
~Jenny

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Jenny Galipeau <jgalipea at redhat.com>
Principal Software QA Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. Security Engineering

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