Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> For a matter of studying OpenLDAP, I decided to create a CLI in Golang that 
> is based on the migrationtools
> (https://gitlab.com/future-ad-laboratory/migrationtools), which is written in 
> Bash and (very old) Perl code.
> 
> All the Golang module is available here: 
> https://github.com/glasswalk3r/aprendendo-openldap/tree/main/migration.
> 
> After learning about the memberof overlay, I've being wondering if it is 
> possible to use it to maintain the UNIX groups at /etc/group instead of just
> replicating the same information over an over.
> 
> I've tried to find references in the documentation of using PAM and NSCD in 
> the Linux clients for authenticating from a OpenLDAP server, but found nothing
> regarding those requirements, neither a detailed explanation (without 
> resorting looking into the source code) of how those requests from a Linux 
> client would be
> sent to OpenLDAP in order to check that.
> 
> If any has any pointers on the subject, I would be glad to receive them.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Alceu

You don't need memberOf to maintain /etc/group info in LDAP.

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