On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:01:53AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > >> Are there any recomendations should I use posixGroup or
> > >> groupOfUniqueNames for new installations?
> > > Neither! Use "groupOfNames"; "groupOfUniqueNames" is not what you think
> > > it is.
> 
> That is because of the tantalizing name "groupOfUniqueNames",  making
> you think that names in "groupOfNames" are not unique.    But of course
> they are, LDAP doesn't support redundant values in an attribute (AFAIK).
> 
> But "member" (groupOfNames) is of type "distinguishedName" and
> "uniqueMember" (groupOfUniqueNames) is
> "1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.34" (which means "Name And Optional UID").
> 
> http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.34.html
> 
> uniqueMember is almost certainly not what you want.
> 
> 
> > Hmmm...  Interesting, searching via google mostly returned references  
> > suggesting most of the folks out there (and therefore tools they are  
> > using) utilize groupOfUniqueNames.  However, I might be wrong.
> 
> We used to use groupOfUniqueNames until we realized the error and
> switched to groupOfNames.  But groupOfNames is the correct objectclass
> for a group defined as a collection of DNs.
> 
> > Anyhow, if using either groupOfNames or groupOfUniqueNames, how about  
> > gidNumber attribute from posixGroup?  I guess nss_ldap is not going to  
> > work without it.  What would be the best way to add that attribute?   
> > Other than defining my custom object classes or using extensibleObject  
> > (obviously you do not recommend those two approaches)?
> 
> In rfc2307bis.schema posixGroup is AUXILLIARY.
> 
> objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.1.1.2.2 NAME 'posixGroup' SUP top AUXILIARY
>   DESC 'Abstraction of a group of accounts'
>   MUST gidNumber
>   MAY ( userPassword $ memberUid $
>         description ) )

in my schema poasixGroup is a structual ( openldap on debian), what is
rfc2308bis.schema ??


> 
> So it can be used in an additive fashion to groupOfNames.
> 
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