[Freeipa-users] AD Primary Groups are ignored in FreeIPA?

[Lachlan Musicman]

Hola,

We have an interesting scenario that is hard to find any information on.

Due to permission restrictions, a NAS that is mounted and visible by both
AD and 'nix clients, every user belongs to a particular primary group.

When we try doing idoverride's on the groups, it fails with the Primary
Group. In some cases, the primary group doesn't even appear in a getent or
id request. Sometimes it appears with incorrect name or GID.

We have found it hard to get repeatable "failures", but here are two:

1. getent group <groupname> (where groupname is any group, but is a primary
group for a subset of members)

 - does not return any member that has groupname as a primary group in AD.

2. Overriding a group

if the user has that group as a primary group (in AD), it will override the
name, but not the GID.
else, the override works.

There were a number of other unusual results that are hard to explain how
to reproduce because it was all so seemingly random.


I feel like it would be an obvious need - to translate or override AD
primary groups to FreeIPA groups, but this doesn't seem possible.

Have we set IPA  up incorrectly, or are we hitting on something else?

I found this AD support problem for Win2003, but I feel like it's old and
would surely have been solved?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/275523

Also, their solution ("hack AD, then hack your other LDAP software") is,
for some reason, funny to me.

Cheers
L.



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