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Bolke de Bruin commented on RANGER-827:
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I'm not sure how to go about testing. At the moment there was already no real
testing for any of the functionality. It would require changing (mostly)
UserSyncGroupConfig.java by exposing some methods to be able to set config
variables and to read the config from a arbitrary location.
Should that be in scope of this patch?
> Use system supplied mechanism to get users and groups on unix
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: RANGER-827
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-827
> Project: Ranger
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: usersync
> Affects Versions: 0.5.1
> Reporter: Bolke de Bruin
> Assignee: Bolke de Bruin
> Labels: integration, pam, sssd, sync
> Fix For: 0.6.0
>
> Attachments: 0001-RANGER-827-Improve-unix-usersync.patch,
> 0002-RANGER-827-Improve-unix-usersync.patch, usersync.patch
>
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> The unix user sync currently reads /etc/passwd /etc/groups . This is often
> not a reflection of users and groups available on a system especially when
> nsswitch is configured (eg. sssd, ldap etc).
> Secondly in some cases groups will contain user names that are not returned
> with "getent passwd", especially "external users" and it is required to add
> these using the group information.
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