I have recently attempted to set up a Fedora Directory Server for evaluation as a replacement for NIS. Overall, the set up process was pretty painless. I spent some time reading the Installation Guide, Administrator's Guide, and Deployment Guide beforehand. Additionally, I tracked down this wonderful guide (http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/fedora-ds-26072006.html) which seemed like exactly what I needed. I am trying to (ultimately) set up a directory service which provides user authentication for Linux and OS X clients. The problem I have run in to is the following: when I issue the command `ls`, I see the following: ~$ ls -l total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 bky 1676 336 Jan 23 09:12 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 4 bky 1676 216 Jan 17 10:24 Documents drwx------ 19 bky 1676 544 Jan 22 12:19 Library drwxr-xr-x 2 bky 1676 48 Jan 17 08:33 Movies drwxr-xr-x 3 bky 1676 72 Jan 17 09:45 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 bky 1676 48 Jan 17 08:30 Pictures drwxrwxr-x 2 bky 1676 96 Dec 20 14:29 bin drwxrwxr-x 3 bky 1676 72 Dec 20 15:53 svn drwxr-xr-x 2 bky 1676 48 Jan 17 09:48 vmware ~$ if I issue the 'groups' command for the user, it tells me: # groups bky id: cannot find name for group ID 1676 # So, it seems obvious to me that group mappings are not configured correctly. On the client side, I am using a CentOS 4.4 machine, configured to use ldap using system-config-authentication, and further tweaking /etc/ldap.conf values for nss_base_passwd, nss_base_shadow, and nss_base_group. Further, in digging through the mailing list archives I found a suggestion to make sure pam_member_attribute was set to uniqueMember -- which I tried, to no avail. I also tried starting nscd which does not fix it (but I didn't really feel like that was the problem, anyway). I will further mention here that the ldap-client package is installed and I have not tried to configure SSL or TLS, yet. So, with that in mind ... what very obvious thing am I missing? Has anyone seen and resolved this issue for themselves? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Brandon
