Thanks Aaron, That's what has me stumped, the GID is there (that's the 500). I guess what has me confused is I can't figure out how to tie that number to a group and have it show in the getent group query. -Paul On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:11 -0500, Aaron Bliss wrote: > Paul, > You probably need to assign a gidnumber (posixgroup attribute) to your > primary ldap group. I've noticed that linux boxes only recognize group > memberships for groups that have gid's. > > Aaron > > Paul Fontenot wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've searched hi and low and found a couple references to the problem I > > have but no solutions. > > > > If I issue 'getent passwd' I can see all the ldap users, if I issue a > > getent group I cannot see any of the ldap groups. When I log into one of > > my linux boxes I get 'id: cannot find name for group ID 500' (500 is an > > ldap group). > > > > What would cause this issue? I've been beating my head against it for a > > couple days and decided to turn to the experts. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > >