initgroups

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Tue, Nov 05, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:

> After a little investigation, I found that the initgroups function 
> doesn't use nscd! That's the problem of our problem.
> Is it real? Normal? Is there a workaround for that?

Yes, this is normal. The way initgroups works prevents it
from using nscd for this.

But there is a initgroups_dyn function for nss modules, which
has an optimized interface for this case. Current nss_ldap modules
should support it.

  Thorsten

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