[Fedora-directory-users] Group name not gid

[ashley]

Normal users don't have the necessary permissions to do the lookup on 
LDAP.

The authentication process is done usally by root then when you are logged 
in you can't do lookups.

I've documented this here

http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/fedora-ds-26072006.html

In Section 3.3 Binding Linux/Unix Machines to LDAPs

(way at the bottom)

Short story is turn on NSCD, this service binds as root but caches the 
information for the local user. Usually information you should cache is 
passwd, group and aliases information which you have to edit 
/etc/nscd.conf

You might want to check this out for NSCD

http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/Fedora%20Miscellaneous%20Problems-23082006.htm

 					Regards Ashley

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Diwakoe wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm using FC6 with FDS authentication and running well but can not
> show groups name only GID when command 'groups' execute on console.
> Sometimes we get confuse when we saw some folder not show group name
> only gid.
>
> ---
> $groups
> id: cannot find name for group ID 10001
> 10001
> ---
>
> Is there any trick how to show group name not gid on konsole.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Diwa
>
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