<div dir="ltr">This is an old thread, but I can confirm that this is still an issue on RHEL 7.2 + 4.2. This creates problems when there are roles associated with groups, but group membership through GID is broken. I had migrated all old NIS accounts into ipa. I then added the host enrollment role to a particular group. Now, unless I add the users to the group explicitly, they won't get the role, even if their gid is the same as the gid of the group. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:01 AM, David Kupka <<a href="mailto:dkupka@redhat.com" target="_blank">dkupka@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 21/08/15 15:21, bahan w wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello ! I contact you because I notice something strange with IPA environment. I created a group : ipa group-add g1 --desc="my first group" Then I created a user with the GID of g1 GID1=`ipa group-show g1 | awk '/GID/ {printf("%s",$2)}'` ipa user-add --first=u1 --last=u1 --homedir=/home/u1 --shell=/bin/bash --gidnumber=${GID1} u1 Then when I perform ipa group-show g1 command, I got the following result : ### Group name: g1 Description: my first group GID: <gid1> ### Same for ipa user-show u1 : ### User login: u1 First name: u1 Last name: u1 Home directory: /home/u1 Login shell: /bin/bash Email address: u1@<MYDOMAIN> UID: <uid1> GID: <gid1> Account disabled: False Password: False Member of groups: ipausers Kerberos keys available: False ### These 2 commands does not see u1 as a member of g1. When I try the command id u1, I can see the group : ### id u1 uid=<uid1>(u1) gid=<gid1>(g1) groups=<gid1>(g1) ### Is it the normal behaviour of these IPA commands ? Best regards. Bahan </blockquote> </div></div> Hello! I'm not sure if this is intended and/or correct behavior or not. Looking at /etc/passwd and /etc/group I see it behaves similarly in a way. You can have following entries in the aforementioned files [/etc/group] ... g1:x:<gid1>: ... [/etc/passwd] ... u1:x:<uid1>:<gid1>::/home/u1:/bin/bash ... Looking in /etc/group you can't see user 'u1' is member of group 'g1' but tools like id, groups, getent shows this information. On the other hand it would be useful to show these "implicit" members in group-show output. Could you please file a ticket (<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/newticket" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/newticket</a>)? -- David Kupka -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users</a> Go to <a href="http://freeipa.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://freeipa.org</a> for more info on the project </blockquote></div> </div>