Re: [nssldap] nss_ldap-257.2 testing release

[Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack [at] terra.com.br>]

Luke Howard escreveu:
> Yes. I think winbindd does something similar. initgroups() however will 
> still work.

The samba folks have been asking for a new glibc call that would only 
translate gid<-->name without fetching all group members, i.e., 
getgrgid() and friends are bad for this purpose. It's one of the reasons 
they (samba) are trying to bypass the nss system whenever they can.