[Freeipa-users] IPA, samba, and secondary groups

[Kelvin Edmison]

On 12-02-29 1:40 PM, "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 11:24 -0500, Kelvin Edmison wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>>  I am running into an issue where users cannot access a samba volume if
>> their only access is via a secondary group.  For example, if testuser's
>> primary group is ipausers, and secondary groups include testgroup, and the
>> samba mount permissions are adminuser:testgroup:rwxrwx---, then testuser
>> cannot read or write to the samba mount.  If the testuser is change so that
>> its primary group is testgroup, then testuser can access the volume.
>> 
>> In this case, samba is running on a separate CentOS 5 server, configured to
>> access IPA via LDAP.  It is a requirement that I support
>> userid/password-based access to the samba server, as I cannot roll all my
>> users onto kerberos right away.
>> 
>> Doe anyone have any insight as to what is going on and how it can be fixed?
> 
> 
> First step would be to make sure that the system is properly looking up
> the user's secondary groups.
> 
> Try 'id testuser' and see if 'testgroup' is listed in the output. If
> it's not, I'll bet you have either a configuration issue or a bug in
> SSSD somewhere.
> 
> Also, what version of SSSD are you running? FreeIPA pretty much needs
> 1.5.x or later nowadays for full feature support.

'id testuser' returns gid=ipausers and groups=ipausers,testgroup.

SSSD RPM is sssd-1.5.1-37.el5

I'm no samba expert so it's quite possible I may have botched setup in that
arena.