posixgroup name lookups

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On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 09:01 -0800, George Holbert wrote:
> Jonathan Barber wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:32:28PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:21 -0800, George Holbert wrote:
> >>     
> >>> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>>> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >>>>>           
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >   
> >> <snip>
> >> Thanks for the very thoughtful answer.  I'm not only new to LDAP but
> >> also to Linux based file servers.  I've been in a management role for
> >> the last decade and before then was doing NDS and NetWare for
> >> directory/file.
> >>
> >> We were planning to use a umask of 007 for standard users and set the
> >> sgid bit for shared folders.  That's where we thought it would be
> >> helpful to have a group associated with each user.  In fact, it finally
> >> made the default setup of creating a group for each user make sense as I
> >> always wondered why that was done.  I suppose we'll also need to
> >> activate file system acls for more complex setups as when multiple
> >> groups need varying access to a shared file system directory.
> >>     
> >
> > This arrangement is known (at least by Redhat) as User Private Groups
> > (UPG):
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html
> >
> > The primary reason for doing it is that group access to files is managed
> > via secondary group membership, not primary group membership
> >
> > If each of your users has their own group, then adding a posixGroup
> > objectclass to each user makes perfect sense. You may also want to place
> > an uniqueness constraint on the gidNumber attribute as well:
> > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/CDS/ag/8.0/Administering_DSPPR-Server_Plug_in_Functionality_Reference.html#Server_Plug_in_Functionality_Reference-UID_Uniqueness_Plug_in
> >
> > WRT to linux, the only gotcha I can think of is that you'll have to set
> > the nss_ldap nss_base_group option in /etc/ldap.conf to an entry that's
> > the common parent to both your users and groups - otherwise it'll never
> > find the UPG's.
> >
> >   
> Another way would be to omit the addition of the posixGroup on your 
> account objects, and just modify the filter on nss_base_group to include 
> posixAccounts.
> e.g.:
> nss_base_group  
> dc=example,dc=com?sub?(|(objectClass=posixGroup)(objectClass=posixAccount))
> 
> posixAccount already includes the gidNumber and cn attributes, which is 
> all you're really after here... unless you want to start adding 
> memberUid attributes to your account objects (which doesn't make any 
> obvious sense).
> 
> You will almost certainly have to modify your nss_base_group setting in 
> either case, as Jonathan suggested.
> 
<snip>
Alas, I'm not sure this is going to work as expected but it could be my
ignorance.  I've read the man page and whatever documentation I could
find.  It appears it does an & operation with the additional filter
whereas I need an |.

I gather the default is:
&(objectClass=posixgroup)(cn=group_name)

I think I need it to be:
|((&(objectClass=posixgroup)(cn=group_name))(&(objectClass=posixaccount)(uid=group_name)))

If it does an &, I think I get:
&((&(objectClass=posixgroup)(cn=group_name))(&(objectClass=posixaccount)(uid=group_name)))

Nevertheless, I tried all of the following without success:

nss_base_group          dc=X,dc=com,dc=ssiservices,dc=biz?sub?|(objectClass=posixAccount)

nss_base_group          dc=X,dc=com,dc=ssiservices,dc=biz?sub?|(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=group_name))
this broke the posixgroup filter, too!

nss_base_group          dc=X,dc=com,dc=ssiservices,dc=biz?sub?&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=group_name)
this broke the posixgroup filter, too!

nss_base_group          dc=X,dc=com,dc=ssiservices,dc=biz?sub?(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=group_name)
this broke the posixgroup filter, too!

nss_base_group          dc=X,dc=com,dc=ssiservices,dc=biz?sub?(objectClass=posixAccount)
this broke the posixgroup filter, too!

nss_base_group          dc=X,dc=com,dc=ssiservices,dc=biz?sub?&(objectClass=posixAccount)

I did flush the nscd group database between each try.  What am I doing
wrong? Thanks - John
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