[Fedora-directory-users] Groups

[Satish Chetty]

Ted X Toth wrote:
> I added the posixgroup to the Object class of a group and gave it a 
> gidnumber. The user I'm trying to login as is defined as a member of the 
> group I added posixgroup to but still the group doesn't seem to have 
> been retrieved because when I do 'id' the group name isn't displayed.

What does your group entry say in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?

-Satish.


> 
> 
> ashley wrote:
>>
>> Its done at the same time as you create the user via the GUI or via 
>> the ldif file where you have to add the object type posixgroup 
>> explicitely
>>
>> Quick run down you can find it here doing via ldif command line
>>
>> http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/fedora-ds-command-09082006.htm 
>>
>>
>>                         Regards Ashley
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Ted X Toth wrote:
>>
>>> Satish Chetty wrote:
>>>> Ted X Toth wrote:
>>>>> Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this but ... I've set up 
>>>>> fedora-ds in order to do network logins via ldap. I've configured 
>>>>> ssh to use pam_mkhomedir and pam_ldap. I used a copy of 
>>>>> Example.ldif changed the root dn and configuring my users and 
>>>>> imported it. I used the console to make my users posix users adding 
>>>>> their uid and gid. When I ssh into the box as a user not configured 
>>>>> on the box the user home dir and contents specified in /etc/skel 
>>>>> are created but the gid is a numeric value as the group doesn't 
>>>>> exist on the box. Do I need to create the groups of network logins 
>>>>> on all the client boxes? I don't see a way to associate a gid with 
>>>>> a group in fedora-ds. What's the right way top
>>>>     You can create group on the client to match the gidnumber in the 
>>>> ldap. Alternatively, you can create a posixgroup entry in the LDAP.
>>>>
>>>> -Satish.
>>>>
>>>>> handle this?
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>>> Ok so how do I add a posixgroup entry in LDAP?
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