Re: groups wrong on NIS clients

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:50:38PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:05:39PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > With today's -current, the group entries for users are not being
> > carried over to the NIS clients.  I rebuilt the NIS maps.
> >
> > On the NIS server machine, which has a complete group file for the
> > network, the output of 'groups' for my user account is:
> >
> > glenn wheel kmem operator cluster
> >
> > On the NIS client machines, I have +:*:: in the /etc/group file.
> > Here is the output of groups on an NIS client:
> >
> > glenn
> >
> > Here is the output of 'ypcat group' (edited to just show my account)
> > on an NIS client.
> >
> > kmem:*:2:glenn
> > cluster:*:1000:glenn
> > operator:*:5:root,glenn
> > wheel:*:0:root,glenn
> >
> > I know this is because of the recent NSS commits but what do I need
> > to do to fix this.
>
> Do you have an nsswitch.conf?  If so, what are the contents?

No.

> What is the output of `id -G' on both systems?

NIS master (with complete group file):
1001 0 2 5 1000

NIS client (with '+:*::' in group file):
1001

> What is the output of (single line):
>
> id -G | perl -e 'foreach (split(/\s+/, <>)) { print $_ .  "\t" . join(":", getgrgid($_), "\n"); }'

NIS master:
1001	glenn:*:1001::
0	wheel:*:0:root glenn:
2	kmem:*:2:glenn:
5	operator:*:5:root glenn:
1000	cluster:*:1000:glenn:

NIS client:
1001	glenn:*:1001::

-- 
Glenn Johnson
USDA, ARS, SRRC			 Phone: (504) 286-4252
New Orleans, LA 70124		e-mail: gjohnson_at_srrc.ars.usda.gov