[Freeipa-users] local system user with ldap group

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:47:05PM -0400, Megan . wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> Quick question I hope.  I have a group on my IPA server and I would
> like to add a local system user to the LDAP group.  I added the group
> into /etc/group on the system and it still doesn't show the user as a
> member of the group.  Is this even possible?
> 
> sssd-1.12.4-47.el6_7.7.x86_64
> ipa-client-3.0.0-47.el6.centos.1.x86_64
> ipa-server-3.0.0-47.el6.centos.1.x86_64

Only with a recent enough libc:
    https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/GroupMerging