[SSSD] Announcing SSSD 1.5.14

GOLLSCHEWSKY, Tim Tim.GOLLSCHEWSKY at suncorp.com.au
Thu Nov 3 23:30:30 UTC 2011


Hi Stephen,

> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:08:51PM +1000, GOLLSCHEWSKY, Tim wrote: >
> > Are these options used anywhere? > >      ldap_group_search_scope
> > >      ldap_group_search_filter >
> >
> > As Jan noted, these options will be deprecated in 1.7 and onwards. But
> > even in the current releases, they only limit the initial user/group
> > lookup (getent passwd/group), not group membership during initgroups.
> >
>
> I'd like to point out that https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/960 will also probably handle this for you. As an add-on to
> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/868 (which handles multiple search bases with individual lookup filters), we will be able to properly filter out > users and groups that don't match the search base and filter.
>
> So I think that in 1.7.0, your issue will be solved by doing:
>
> ldap_group_search_base =
> dc=example,dc=com?subtree?(|(cn=group1)(cn=group2)(cn=group3))
>
> And the result will be that you will only see groups that match the aforementioned filter, even for nested groups with DN lookups.

Absolutely.  Yes I think being able to configure the group search base like this would be very useful.  :)

Cheers,

Tim.

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