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I normally have to use "id -a <username>" in order to get the
supplementary groups in the output (Debian Linux).

  Andy

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Patrick Wolfe wrote:

> perhaps your installed "id" command doesn't support the nsswitch.conf file
> and it's associated library.  You might need to recompile it.  What distro
> and version of UNIX are you using?
>
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> On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:14 PM, <okossuth@...> wrote:
>
>> of course I have done that..
>> any other ideas?
>>
>> Saludos,
>>
>> Oskar Kossuth
>> Administrador UNIX
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>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: owner-nssldap@... [mailto:owner-nssldap@...] En nombre de
>> Patrick Wolfe
>> Enviado el: Monday, December 22, 2008 5:04 PM
>> Para: Kossuth Espinosa, Oskar
>> CC: nssldap@...
>> Asunto: Re: [nssldap] RV: Unix id command and Openldap
>>
>> the "id" command works fine on our FreeBSD 6 and CentOS 4.x/5.x
>> servers.  Make sure your /etc/nsswitch.conf says "passwd: files ldap"
>> and "group: files ldap", or else id won't be searching ldap for ids
>> and groups.
>>
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>> On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:15 PM, <okossuth@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does the id command works with a system using OPENLDAP
>>> authentication ?
>>>
>>> I have implemented a server with openldap 2.3 and several clients
>>> use this system to authenticate
>>>
>>> users, and works fine except that when I do a "id user" on a client
>>> it only gives me the information of the primary
>>>
>>> group which the user belongs to and not of the suplementary groups
>>> that he is also a member of in the LDAP server...
>>>
>>> any ideas??
>>>
>>> im sending you the /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf of the
>>> client.
>>>
>>> thanks for your help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saludos,
>>>
>>> Oskar Kossuth
>>> Administrador UNIX
>>> ANTEL Telecomunicaciones
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Mensaje original-----
>>> De: openldap-technical-bounces+okossuth=antel.com.uy@...
>>> [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces+okossuth=antel.com.uy@...
>>> ] En nombre de Andrew Findlay
>>> Enviado el: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:00 PM
>>> Para: Kossuth Espinosa, Oskar
>>> CC: openldap-technical@...; claus.kick@...
>>> Asunto: Re: Unix id command and Openldap
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:20:40PM -0200, okossuth@... wrote:
>>>
>>>> My problem is that I only see the primary group without the
>>>> supplementary ones, whenever the groups are stored in the LDAP if the
>>>> user is in the ldap server.
>>>
>>> This sounds more like an NSS problem than a purely OpenLDAP one,
>>> so you may get more help by posting to nssldap@....
>>>
>>> Please post the 'passwd' and 'group' lines from /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>> and also the /etc/ldap.conf file (with passwords obscured).
>>>
>>> It would also be worth running slapd at debug level 768 and posting
>>> what gets logged when you run the 'id' command.
>>>
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>>> <ldap.conf><nsswitch.conf>
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