On Friday 29 February 2008 19:43:30 Christian Weihrauch wrote:
Hi,
I have problems with debian etch Linux clients resolving group names served by our LDAP server. user and passwd work because I can login properly.
Do you have other clients which work correctly?
"getent group" properly shows the group served by the LDAP server. eg: #getent group mygroup:x:1000:chris
So, resolving group names actually works.
However "id username" only shows LDAP served groupIDs but not their names. eg: #id chris uid=1002(chris) gid=1000 groups=1000,20(dialout)
This means that I can't do things like chgrp eg: "chgroup mygroup directoryname" gives: "chgrp: invalid group `mygroup'"
I would stop nscd first, and test again.
I am using nscd and nsswitch.conf says:
(note that nsswitch doesn't have that much to do with nscd ... but nscd can make changes in nsswitch.conf take longer to apply, due to caching)
passwd: files ldap group: files ldap shadow: files ldap
I assume both the above commands (getent group, and id chris) were run as the same user, if not, you should specify if they were run as root or not in each case, as this could be a binddn/anonymous vs rootbinddn issue.
Regards, Buchan