Please, what are the groups? Re: mech=login, auth=sasldb, groups=???

[Ian McDonald]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mika Iisakkila" <mika.iisakkila at pingrid.fi>
To: "Ian McDonald" <ian at londontown.com>
Cc: "Simon Matter" <simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com>;
<info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: Please, what are the groups? Re: mech=login, auth=sasldb,
groups=???


> Ian McDonald wrote:
>
> > Please, what are the groups, if not using Unix auth?
>
> AFAIK you'd have to use Kerberos. If you have --with-auth=unix, the
> group lookups go to the normal getpwnam()/getgrnam() functions, which
> finally consult anything your name service switch is configured to do.

Thanks for the answer.

/etc/group does not appear to work with my setup, although I did configure
with auth=unix :(. (And runtime authentication set to sasldb).

I have tried to put the group I want to create in /etc/group (which is our
name service switch - "group:      files nisplus"). The group structure is a
C array of character strings, so that should be enough. But I created unix
accounts for the group members, just to be sure.

The group ACL has no effect on what the intended group members can see.