user's secondary groups are not showing up
2007-12-24 22:09:00
This really has me stumped. I have a NIS+ domain, the master is
a Solaris 2.4 machine. I have various clients of this NIS+ master
which seem to be working ok. I have a couple of client machines that
I recently upgraded from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8. On the Solaris 8
machines things seem to work ok APART from the fact that the secondary
groups memberships of the users simply does not work. If I type the
groups command for a user on the Solaris 8 machine I only get the
user's primary login group. If I do the same on one of the other
machines on the network I get the full list of groups the user is a
member of. Things I HAVE checked (please read carefully :-)
1) The group entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf has both files and nisplus
listed. I tried just making this nisplus.... no go.
2) The NIS+ group table is accessible on the Solaris 8 client and the
contents look ok.
3) Checked both /etc/group and the NIS+ table for any funny
characters, bad group names and other sorts of illegal entries. It
all seems to be clear.
4) did a niscat -p on group.org_dir and checked the objects. The
_seem_ ok to me but I am not a NIS+ expert.
I am unsure if this is a clue or not but when a "r" command is run I
get this in the /var/adm/messages file:
Mar 12 23:40:03 ibis rsh[19050]: [ID 527529 daemon.warning] nis_list: NIS+ error Missing or malformed attribute encountered on name group.org_dir.mhc.gecms.com.au. in table group.org_dir.mhc.gecms.com.au.'s path.
which may be pointing at the problem but I cannot work out what
attribute is missing/malformed. Can someone please whack me with a
four by clue? I am going nuts here...
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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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