[SSSD] [PATCH] Use fake users for RFC2307bis nested group processing

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Oct 19 08:26:54 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742052
> 
> Attached are two patches that should be commited to 1.5. They are
> already present in 1.6 and later branches.
> 
> Instead of downloading all user attributes and saving complete user data
> during nested RFC2307bis group processing, download only the necessary
> attributes (objectclass and name) and save the users as "fake".
> 
> This lowers the network traffic needed to download all the attributes, reduces
> the cache size and provides a minor speedup.
> 
> The speedup really is minor compared to what dereference brings because
> the RFC2307bis processing code still needs to perform at least N LDAP
> lookups for N group members that are not cached.

We decided to retire this patch in favor of
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1006



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