Most of the samba groups have spaces(when using smbldap-populate)

eg:

"Domain Users" "Domain Admins"

This will stop nssov replacing nss_ldap for most samba configurations

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:

Greek Ordono wrote:

...

is this is a known bug?

ERROR: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.11 (Mar 26 2009 08:14:38) $ daemon: IPv6 socket() failed errno=97 (Address family not supported by protocol) slapd starting

nssov: group entry cn=Domain Admins,ou=Groups,dc=domain,dc=com contains invalid group name: "Domain Admins" -- grexk

No bug, group names in POSIX are not allowed to contain spaces.

-- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

On Friday 29 May 2009 16:53:26 Howard Chu wrote:

David wrote:

...

Most of the samba groups have spaces(when using smbldap-populate)

eg:

"Domain Users" "Domain Admins"

This will stop nssov replacing nss_ldap for most samba configurations

Of course, in Windows-based networks, Unix clients using nss_winbind see this a lot more, and really have no choice ...

# echo "some mess:x:127:hyc" >> /etc/group # groups hyc hyc adm dialout cdrom audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin some mess

This is hardly a deal-breaker.

And this would work identically with nss_ldap, but not with nssov.

You aren't doing anyone any favors by supporting groups with spaces in their names.

Maybe they should be allowed to chose if they want it or not ...

Regards, Buchan