[Fedora-directory-users] adding a user to multiple groups

Jamie McKnight warthog at warthogsolutions.com
Tue Mar 14 20:14:36 UTC 2006


Shouldn't memberuid be the user name, not the numeric uid?

That is how we have it set up and we don't have any issues.

So under sysadmin memberUid should be

memberUid: test

not

memberUid: 1234


Jamie


> well, gid 14 was in conflict with uucp group, so I changed it a bit:
>
> # testGroup, Groups, example.com
> dn: cn=testGroup,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
> memberUid: 1234
> cn: testGroup
> gidNumber: 1234
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: posixgroup
>
>
> # sysadmin, Groups, example.com
> dn: cn=sysadmin,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
> gidNumber: 666
> memberUid: 1125
> memberUid: 1234
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: posixgroup
> cn: sysadmin
>
> # test, UNIX, example.com
> dn: uid=test,ou=UNIX,dc=example,dc=com
> gidNumber: 1234
> givenName: test
> uidNumber: 1234
> uid: test
>
> now, test should belong to testGroup & sysadmin, correct?  but that's not
> happening:
>
> # id test -a
> uid=1234(test) gid=1234(testGroup) groups=1234(testGroup)
>
> I don't understand this.  It seemed so straight forward!
>
> (after switching test's gidNumber from 1234 to 666):
>
> # id test -a
> uid=1234(test) gid=666(sysadmin) groups=666(sysadmin)
>
> so, it's not recognizing the memberUid attribute, I think.
>
> There's this in /etc/ldap.conf:
>
> # Group member attribute
> #pam_member_attribute uniquemember
>
>
> I changed uniquemember to memberuid but that didn't do anything....
>




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