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WHATSNEW: samba-tool improvements
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This text is based on https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/1015
by Björn Baumbach, just re-worked a little to suit the WHATSNEW.

I wrote the second section

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Karolin Seeger <[email protected]>
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A large number of issues have been found and fixed thanks to this
effort.

samba-tool improvements add contacts as member to groups
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Previously "samba-tool group addmemers" can just add users, groups and
computers as members to groups. But also contacts can be members of
groups. Samba 4.12 adds the functionality to add contacts to
groups. Since contacts have no sAMAccountName, it's possible that
there are more than one contact with the same name in different
organizational units. Therefore it's necessary to have an option to
handle group members by their DN.

To get the DN of an object there is now the --full-dn option available
for all necessary commands.

The MS Windows UI allows to search for specific types of group members
when searching for new members for a group. This feature is included
here with the new samba-tool group addmembers --object-type=OBJECTYPE
option. The different types are selected accordingly to the Windows
UI. The default samba-toole behaviour shouldn't be changed.

Allow filtering by OU or subtree in samba-tool
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A new --base-dn and --member-base-dn option is added to relevant
samba-tool user, group and ou management commands to allow operation
on just one part of the AD tree, such as a single OU.

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