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Re: moving to usergroups



On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> Therefore I propose to:
>  - create, for each user in the Debian LDAP, a group named like the
>    user.
>  - Make the primary group for each user their corresponding group.
>  - Make their former primary group (Debian, guest) a supplementary
>    group.
> 
> This would require adapting all scripts that currently rely on the gid
> field to tell if somebody is a DD.  They would have to change their
> filter/condition from e.g. gidNumber=800 to supplementaryGid=Debian.
> (Note that supplementaryGid is a multi-value field.)
> 
> Comments/suggestions/concerns?

As far as I'm concerned, go for it. I do check gidNumber on
nm.debian.org in a couple of places, and I'll happily fix it.


Enrico

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