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Re: posixGroup and groupofNames



Siddhartha Jain <sjain@silverspringnet.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Running CentOS 5.4 with stock OpenLDAP distro 2.3.43. Both classes,
> posixgroup and groupofnames are structural causing conflicts if one
> wants to use both. And while RFC2307bis is deleted by IETF, RFC2307
> doesn't seem to have the same traction (or, does it)? So, what's a
> good option? Simply switch posixgroup to AUX in
> /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema?

Both object classes follow different concepts. Object class
groupOfNames requires a member attribute type:

member: cn=foo bar,ou=people,dc=example,dc=conm

while posixgroup requires memberUid attribute type:

memberUid: foo


-Dieter

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