On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:51:56PM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> > > The third patch adds a sysdb call to recursively resolve all
> > > user-members of a group. Since the groups in SSSD's cache are
> > > hierarchically organized the member attribute only contains direct
> > > user and group members. To get all users the group members must be
> > > resolved recursively.
> > 
> > Would dereferencing memberof:top-level-group yield different results?
> 
> It worked in my testing but I have to admit that I'm not sure if it can
> be used reliable all the time, i.e. is independent of all the different
> lookup sequences you can have with nested groups. If you are sure it is
> reliable, the call can be simplified.

This is how memberof is supposed to work. I haven't tested all
scenarios either (if there are some corner cases you'd like me to test,
just let me know), but if there are differences, I would say these would
be bugs in the memberof plugin and should be fixed.
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