Support nested groups on the user_groups table on darwin
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Description
There's an existing master task on #619 under Shared (cross platform) tables for group membership. To expand on scenarios/actionable criteria worth collecting, just sticking to the native local directory service, it would be vital to know who is in the admin group, and further to know(/potentially use as a foreign key?) nested groups - e.g., staff and or netaccounts in the _lpadmin group, to allow 'standard' (non-admin) users to print on Darwin. There is also a system ssh group, com.apple.access_ssh (whose GID has varied through different OS releases) that it is a common pattern to nest the admin group in.
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Research direction
Start by reading the linked master task, #619, and the existing Darwin behavior of the user_groups table. Clarify how nested membership should be represented or queried, including admin, _lpadmin, and com.apple.access_ssh scenarios. Done should make the requested nested group relationships available through the Darwin table and cover the agreed criteria.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, macos, sql
- Domain
- databases, operating-systems, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100