> Mazda Motor Logistics Europe NV, Blaasveldstraat 162, B-2830 Willebroek VAT BE 406.024.281, RPR Mechelen, ING 310-0092504-52, IBAN : BE64 3100 0925 0452, SWIFT : BBRUBEBB -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim P. Starrin > Sent: donderdag 20 maart 2008 15:43 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Red Hat Appears to Ignore Secondary Groups for LDAP Users [ Moved to bottom of message ] > Nigel Wade wrote: > > Tim P. Starrin wrote: > >> On Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 Update 6 with the > latest patches > >> > >> Given the LDAP user "t-bone" with the following group set... > >> > >> % id > >> uid=9066(t-bone) gid=121(a00121) > groups=121(a00121),144(a00144) \ > >> context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t > >> > >> % groups > >> a00121 a00144 > >> > >> > >> The following operations that should work on a Linux ext3 > file system, > >> fail... > >> > >> % ls -la > >> drwxr-x--- 2 root a00144 4096 Mar 19 13:29 a00144 > >> -r--r----- 1 root a00144 29 Feb 27 18:34 date > >> > >> % ls a00144 > >> ls: a00144: Permission denied > >> > >> % cat date > >> cat: date: Permission denied > >> > >> > >> Note that file and directory access via the primary group, > >> gid=121(a00121), > >> works fine. > >> > >> Did I setup something wrong or is this a real bug? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > > > > That should work, it works here with groups supplied by LDAP. > > What are the permissions on the entire path leading to the > directory > > containing a00144 and date? > > > > What do you get if you use getent to display the group a00144? > > > > # getent group a00144 > > This is bizarre, now it's working for the first time ever. I am not > running nscd either and I did not change a thing. Yesterday I even > called Red Hat support and reported the problem. They were > baffled too. > > While on the phone yesterday, we confirmed the following... > > Selinux is permissive > no acls > no attr > The gid is above 500 (we tested another file with a gid over 1,000 > just in case) > no nscd service running > id while the ldap user is logged in shows secondary ldap groups. > Getent passwd and getent group show ldap users and groups > > > Any ideas what happened here? I do not want to run into this problem > again when I add a few hundred users to the system and place it in > production. I know this is a very late reply but I'm just browsing through some old archived mails. Did you by any chance changed the group memebrship during the initial session and logged back in on the enxt day? That might explain why even though the membership showed up with getent and so on they were not honoured. Regards Bram -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list