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Opened 17 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#1818 new enhancement

Fix for problems with multiple unix groups

Reported by: techcon1@… Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: UnixGroupsPlugin
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Trac Release: 0.10

Description

UnixGroupsPlugin as it is currently written is both extremely slow and non-functional on a server that is bound to a large domain. On my domain-bound Xserve, getgrall() from the grp library in python takes 6 seconds to complete and returns a 500kb list. On top of that, the list comparison to check which other groups the user is a member of fails to return anything.

I rewrote it to use subprocess (python2.4 and up) to run id, and use regular expressions to parse out the group names. I'll attach my version…

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unixgroups-new.py​ (838 bytes) - added by techcon1@… 17 years ago.
Rewritten to use id and only return secondary groups

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Changed 17 years ago by techcon1@…

Attachment: unixgroups-new.py​ added

Rewritten to use id and only return secondary groups

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by techcon1@…

This person's problem was the same as mine: #717.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Ryan J Ollos

#717 closed as a duplicate. This ticket has been left open since it has a patch.

This plugin is in need of a maintainer.

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by Ryan J Ollos

Owner: Noah Kantrowitz deleted

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