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Re: Why mkgroup does not list group members?


On May 13 17:43, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The current version of the mkgroup utility does not seem to care
> about group members when generating the group file (either out of
> domain or locally).  I wonder what prevented it from using
> NetGroupGetUsers()/NetLocalGroupGetMembers() to list the group
> users after that last colon.

Because it's not necessary since the groups are in your user token
anyway, and so is extra work for no gain.


Corinna

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