On Feb 21, 2014, at 14.14, Jefferson Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> This has been beating me like a red-headed stepchild...
> 
> In the AD world, groupOfNames is expected (in combination with the member 
> attribute, provides for reverse group resolution, ie users by group 
> membership AND groups by member inclusion).
> 
> On the unix side of the fence, groups REQUIRE a gidNumber in order to resolve 
> group membership, using posixGroup structural OC in conjunction with 
> memberUID.
> 
> In attempting to future-proof our ldap services, and to accommodate the 
> AD-Focused nature of commercial products, I'm attempting to get this to all 
> work automatically, ie use the same group setup for both (probably naive and 
> ill-advised?).  But you CANNOT have multiple structural objectclasses in a 
> single entry.  So these requirements put group structures in direct 
> opposition of one another.  
> 
> Has anyone resolved this successfully, and if so, how?  Overlays (which ones, 
> examples)?  Schema mods (examples?)

refer to draft-howard-rfc2307bis-02 
[doc/drafts/draft-howard-rfc2307bis-xx.txt], which defines posixgroup as aux.  
use the schema defined in this document instead of nis.

-ben

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