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ScottAdair
Asked: 2011-12-12 17:52:50 +0800 CST

Output of groups different then id

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I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on.

We are using NIS (haven't had a chance to migrate to LDAP) and for some reason the groups aren't being displayed correctly. 

[scott.adair@tor-admin01 ~]$ groups
pfa-admin

But when I search based on my username, it returns correctly

[scott.adair@tor-admin01 ~]$ groups scott.adair
scott.adair : pfa-admin it-admin

This is the same for the id command as well. This seems to work fine for local users (root), but not for any of my NIS accounts.

I can use the newgrp command to switch to the it-admin group, but that seems like a bit of hack.

Any ideas?

linux nis centos6

1 Answers

  1. I updated the /etc/nssiwtch.conf and changed 

    passwd:     compat
shadow:     compat
group:      compat

    to 

    passwd:     files nis
shadow:     files nis
group:      files nis

    Now all the groups are listed when I run the id or groups commands.

    [scott.adair@tor-admin01 ~]$ id
uid=6100(scott.adair) gid=5000(pfa-admin) groups=5000(pfa-admin),5001(it-admin)

[scott.adair@tor-admin01 ~]$ groups
pfa-admin it-admin
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