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Re: gid doesn't display correctly on SAMBA share using AD


On Feb 25 11:51, Len Giambrone wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 11:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb 25 11:01, Len Giambrone wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>The username displays correctly, but the group name does not:
> >>
> >>$ ls -la foo
> >>-rw-rw-r-- 1 build Unix_Group+999 0 Feb 25 10:52 foo
> >>
> >>And this is confirmed by running getent:
> >>
> >>$ getent passwd build
> >>build:*:1065765:1049089:U-ISCINTERNAL\build,S-1-5-21-112145844-1872675854-1690816760-17189:/home/build:/bin/bash
> >>
> >>$ getent passwd group
> >>
> >>I've read
> >>https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-gecos
> >>'til I'm blue in the face, and I think this should work.
> >>What am I missing?  How can I debug?
> >If your admin changed your user account to have a gidNumber 999 only,
> >then that won't help,  Consider:  Cygwin tries to find a group with
> >gidNumber set to 999.  How is it supposed to evaluate the right
> >gidNumber value from some arbitrary user account?
> >
> >What Cygwin needs to get the right connection between a Windows group
> >and a gidNumber value is that the *group* entry in AD itself has the
> >gidNumber set to the right value.
> >
> >I don't know if that's really the problem in your case, but that seems
> >the most likely.
> >
> >Please report back.  I'm excited that I'm not the only one interested
> >in getting this connection between unix and windows ids working :)
> 
> It worked.  :)  Now I just have to persuade my admin to populate uidNumber
> and gidNumber for all our current and new users...

I'm glad to read that.  Thanks for your feedback!


Corinna

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