----- Original Message ----- From: "Mika Iisakkila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:24 PM Subject: Re: Please, what are the groups? Re: mech=login, auth=sasldb, groups=???
> Ian McDonald wrote: > > > Please, what are the groups, if not using Unix auth? > > AFAIK you'd have to use Kerberos. If you have --with-auth=unix, the > group lookups go to the normal getpwnam()/getgrnam() functions, which > finally consult anything your name service switch is configured to do. Thanks for the answer. /etc/group does not appear to work with my setup, although I did configure with auth=unix :(. (And runtime authentication set to sasldb). I have tried to put the group I want to create in /etc/group (which is our name service switch - "group: files nisplus"). The group structure is a C array of character strings, so that should be enough. But I created unix accounts for the group members, just to be sure. The group ACL has no effect on what the intended group members can see.
