[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#462045: Bug#462045: samba: automagically add initial set of domain groups

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:29:57AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > > Therefore, I don't think we should implement this. Other maintainers,
> > > please untag this bug if you disagree.

> > I disagree, so untagging.  I think it would be reasonable to set up the
> > Domain Users / Domain Guests mappings by default on a first install.

> Optionnally, maybe, then?

> (medium-priority debconf question, etc.)

What reason is there to ask the user at all about this?  If the user wants
to map these NT groups to different Unix groups, then it's still
straightforward to do that, AFAIK.  Is there some reason that it's wrong
(== insecure) to always map these groups by default, even if they'll be
changed later?

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