[Freeipa-users] id: cannot find name for group ID

Mark Heslin mheslin at redhat.com
Fri Jul 25 03:22:45 UTC 2014


Happy Friday,

I'm getting this message on login to an IPA client and not sure why:

   $ ssh -Y -l *ose-dev1* rhc1.interop.example.com
   ose-dev1 at rhc1.interop.example.com's password:
   Last login: Thu Jul 24 19:46:46 2014 from rhc1.interop.example.com
   Kickstarted on 2013-12-11
*id: cannot find name for group ID 889000002*   <--- ???

The group and account were created about 2 months ago on an IdM (RHEL 7) 
server as follows:

#*ipa group-add ose-developers --desc="OpenShift Developers" 
--gid=889000002 *
   ----------------------------
   Added group "ose-developers"
   ----------------------------
     Group name: ose-developers
     Description: OpenShift Developers
*GID: 889000002*

   #*ipa user-add ose-dev1 --first="OSE" --last="Dev 1" 
--displayname="OpenShift Developer 1" --homedir="/home/ose-dev1" 
--shell="/bin/bash" **
****--uid=889000002 --gidnumber=889000002 --password *
    Password: *******
    Enter Password again to verify:
    ---------------------
    Added user "ose-dev1"
    ---------------------
      User login: ose-dev1
      First name: OSE
      Last name: Dev 1
      Full name: OSE Dev 1
      Display name: OpenShift Developer 1
      Initials: OD
      Home directory: /home/ose-dev1
      GECOS: OSE Dev 1
      Login shell: /bin/bash
      Kerberos principal: ose-dev1 at INTEROP.EXAMPLE.COM
      Email address: ose-dev1 at interop.example.com
      UID: 889000002
*GID: 889000002 *
      Password: True
      Member of groups: ipausers
      Kerberos keys available: True

On the IdM server, when I run 'group-show', 'group-find' I get:

# ipa group-show ose-developers
   Group name:*ose-developers *
   Description: OpenShift Developers
*GID: 889000002 *

# ipa group-find ose-developers
---------------
   1 group matched
   ---------------
     Group name:*ose-developers*
     Description: OpenShift Developers
*GID: 889000002*
   ----------------------------
   Number of entries returned 1
   ----------------------------

and 'user-show' returns:

# ipa user-show ose-dev1
   User login: ose-dev1
   First name: OSE
   Last name: Dev 1
   Home directory: /home/ose-dev1
   Login shell: /bin/bash
   Email address: ose-dev1 at interop.example.com
   UID: 889000002
*GID: 889000002*
   Account disabled: False
   Password: True
   Member of groups: ipausers
   Kerberos keys available: True

so clearly the groups, user entries are correct in IdM. On first login, 
the homedir
is created but the group name is not resolved:

   $ pwd
   /home/ose-dev1
   [ose-dev1 at xrhc1 ~]$ ls -lad .
   drwxr-xr-x. 3 ose-dev1 *889000002* 4096 Jul 24 19:51 .
   $ id
   uid=889000002(ose-dev1) *gid=889000002* groups=889000002 
context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

Is there some other client side lookup issue that is causing this? Why 
doesn't *gid=889000002* map to (*ose-developers*)?

Thanks!

-m


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