Posts in category NFS

Removed silly limitations on system groups with LDAP backend enabled

Responding to changeset 279 and explaining the reasons of changeset 304, there is now no more limitations when creating system groups.

If the LDAP backend is enabled, the newly created system group will go into the LDAP backend.

This makes NFS works perfectly on LDAP-enabled clients, which now see all groups when listings ACLs and standard posix perms.

Now, the licorn-ldap-server debian package tries to move every important pre-existing system group (acl, licorn-wmi) from the Unix backend to the LDAP one. This will implicitly install them network-wide and avoid the need to create them on every ALT®. Finally this will help propagate admin privileges on every client.