[Freeipa-users] getent netgroup <users> doesn't work on centos 6, but works on centos 5

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Dec 28 11:57:46 UTC 2012


David Copperfield wrote:
> Hi howdy,
>
>   I've migrated some NIS netgroups from my old openLDAP to IPA 2.2.0, it
> imported all the old data without prompting problems. But now the issues
> are at the client side:
>
>   redhat 5.8 clients can see all host netgroups and user netgroups
> without problems.
> while redhat 6.3 clients can only see all host based netgroups. user
> netgroups can not be seen.
>
> But when I create new user netgroups directly through web UI, both types
> of clients have no problems to see.
>
> Any one knows what could be the issue? if my importing/migration script
> have issues, then both types of clients will report problems at the same
> time, not 5.8 works while 6.3 fails, right? Any one has encountered same
> issue? Please shed a light here.

Can you expand on how user netgroups can't be seen? You might try amping 
up the sssd debug level to see if it is having problems seeing things.

rob




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