Issue #4607 has been updated by Gary Larizza. Assignee deleted (Gary Larizza)
---------------------------------------- Feature #4607: directoryservice group provider for OS X should allow groups to be members of a group https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4607#change-67835 Author: Nigel Kersten Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: OSX Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: group, os x Branch: Unlike many other systems, OS X considers group membership to be an attribute of the group, not the members, and so we have a situation where in Puppet the provider can manage group membership. It turns out that we can only manage users as members of this group, but it's perfectly valid to have nested groups in OS X. We should support this. This came up because of someone wanting to use the Puppet group type to manage Service ACLs in OS X, which are simply groups with a specific naming scheme. The vast majority of the time when you wish to do this, you want to nest groups inside the SACL. There are a few unanswered questions about how we'd do this, as the provider simply doesn't know whether a given string refers to a user or a group, and it needs to execute different commands in each scenario. We also don't really want to have to supply Puppet resource references, as some of these groups may be in a remote directoryservice node, and thus unsuitable for being managed by Puppet. Perhaps we have another 'group_members' attribute? Then we need to work out whether something is a group or a user when checking status... Anyway, while it's not clear how best to do this, I think it's something we should do. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
