Bug 19072 - Support for Group Merging
Summary: Support for Group Merging
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: glibc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: nss (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stephen Gallagher
URL: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Pro...
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Reported: 2015-10-06 03:11 UTC by Stephen Gallagher
Modified: 2015-10-17 05:41 UTC (History)
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Description Stephen Gallagher 2015-10-06 03:11:55 UTC 
Full proposal is at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/GroupMerging

Short version:
Many users would like to be able to use central LDAP systems like FreeIPA or Active Directory and be able to supplement local groups (such as 'wheel' or 'adm') with entries maintained on those central systems. To do this, we need to be able to merge group membership lists from one data source into others.

Related downstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146822