[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 783 get group info when showing user

[Rob Crittenden]

Adam Young wrote:
>   On 05/13/2011 04:10 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> The UI team had asked that we provide some group info (GID,
>> description) when showing users. This ads a special call to group_find
>> to get this information. It is returned as a list of dicts.
>>
>> ticket 107
>>
>> rob
>>
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> I wonder if this is the wrong abstraction. As we discussed today, we
> need to do many of these types of cross referential searches. Bascially,
> we need to be able to filter on 'member' and 'memberof' type relationships.
>
> So if we did a group_find --member_user=ayoung it would return all
> groups that I am a member of. This would work across the board for
> association facets

That works now, as specified in the ticket. I was under the impression 
this was rejected which is why I embedded it into user-show. What you 
suggested works now with: ipa group-find --users=ayoung

memberof doesn't exist in the group, you have to look at the end entity.

rob