[SSSD-users] RHEL 6 ldap client can query a group, but cannot traverse groups of groups.

ted.rush at faa.gov ted.rush at faa.gov
Tue Oct 22 16:13:58 UTC 2013


Hi!
                                                                                                                                           
              We have been working this problem for two weeks debugging. We have 389-ds running and multi-master with 3 RHEL6 servers and  
              a RHEL5. The RHEL5 ldap clients authenticate correctly to the RHEL6 389-ds directory server and with 'id' command can see    
              all groups a user belongs too.                                                                                               
              The same command in a RHEL6 ldap client using sssd shows ONLY the primary group. If we change the ldap clients to point at   
              the RHEL5 389-ds directory server the same results occur. The one consistency is any RHEL6 ldap client we setup will         
              authenticate to either RHEL5 or RHEL6 but the entire list of groups that user belongs to do not transfer independent of      
              server version. We have enumerate set to true and we have ldap_group_member set to uniqueMember. These seems to point to the 
              ldap client as RHEL5 client works just fine and both RHEL5 and RHEL6 389-ds servers react the same but we're not sure how to 
              correct or is it a bug. HELP?                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                           

We had this posted in 389-users but were referred to the sssd list.  id of
a user(id JSmith) only returns the primary group, not a complete list of
the groups that user belongs too.  The getent group MyGroup lists the
subgroups by names but not the members.  On a RHEL5 ldap client the same
entries provide a complete list of groups the user belongs to when entering
id JSmith.  The getent group MyGroup also burrows down through subgroups to
list all users that belong to that group either directly or because a group
they belong to belongs to the group MyGroup.  Any ideas?  The problem seems
to be with RHEL 6 ldap client and some settings in sssd but not sure where
to go from here.

Thanks,
Ted

Ted Rush
Common ARTS Information System Security ISSO/POC
Common ARTS Software Development System Lead
(609) 485-5917



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