Juha Jäykkä wrote: > Hi! > > I was digging around a problem with a user not being able to access his > cdrom even though the user belongs to group cdrom (as reported by "groups > user") and the cdrom device is mode rw- group cdrom. It was immediately > clear this is a libnss-ldap issue, since the problem disappears if I add > the user to local (i.e. /etc/group) cdrom group and remove ldap from > group-line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > Now, what I am concerned about is this. I am logged in as user "juhaj" and > > ~> id > uid=1000(juhaj) gid=1000(juhaj) > groups=33731,37810,4(adm),4(adm),24(cdrom),24(cdrom),29(audio),29(audio),40(src),40(src),44(video),1000(juhaj),33731,37809 > > ~> id juhaj > uid=1000(juhaj) gid=1000(juhaj) > groups=1000(juhaj),4(adm),24(cdrom),29(audio),40(src),44(video) > The issue is with pam_group and /etc/security/group.conf.
It adds people logging in to certain groups for desktop purposes or what not. Pretty much id tells you what groups the process is a part of while id <user> tells you what groups are listed in /etc/group. Or thats my understanding of this. -- Scott Henson LCSEE Systems Staff WVU MAE Undergraduate Ubuntu User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
