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  2. NXP-6430

POSIX group support

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Status: Resolved
    • Priority: Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: 5.4.0.1
    • Fix Version/s: 5.5
    • Component/s: Directory

      Description

      Hello,

      I have been asked to implement POSIX group support in Nuxeo. We use the RFC 2307 schema [1]. This patchs only touches LDAPReference.java. It extends the staticAttribute option with a new boolean option called staticAttributeIsId where a true value indicates the content of the staticAttributeId field is the Id of an LDAP object instead of a DN.

      <ldapReference field="members"
      directory="userDirectory"
      forceDnConsistencyCheck="false"
      staticAttributeId="memberUid"
      staticAttributeIsId="true" />

      The patch is mostly working on my side. I can view, add and remove users from groups, and add and remove groups from users. My current version of the patch is attached to this message and was pushed to a personnal Hg repository [2]. I have not submitted a bug report on this because I'm stumbling on an unrelated problem.

      The POSIX group object doesn't support subGroups but Nuxeo seems to expect to find subGroups in a group definition. If I don't add a dummy reference such as this one, Nuxeo crashed in various ways, all related to the missing subGroups link.

      <!-- This doesn't make sense but I need that to test the patch -->
      <ldapReference field="subGroups"
      directory="groupDirectory"
      staticAttributeId="memberUid"
      forceDnConsistencyCheck="false"
      staticAttributeIsId="false" />

      Is there are way to tell Nuxeo that the directory doesn't support subGroups, that may have escaped me? I can take a stab at implementing this feature but since it spans several module in Nuxeo, from views to document model, I would like to know if there isn't an easy way to do that first.

      [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt
      [2] https://bitbucket.org/fdgonthier/nuxeo-services-patches

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        1. nuxeo-posix-groups
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          François-Denis Gonthier
        2. nuxeo-posix-groups
          54 kB
          François-Denis Gonthier
        3. nuxeo-posix-groups
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          François-Denis Gonthier

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