Is your /etc/nsswitch file configured to get group info from LDAP? If so 
everything should just work I believe. 

Sincerely,
Scott

> On Sep 15, 2015, at 7:58 AM, JC <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a CentOS system where authentication over the SSH interface is 
> delegated to an OpenLDAP server by means of PAM. This works fine. However, 
> when the authentication succeeds, I would like for the OpenLDAP server to 
> send back group information as well to the CentOS system. That is, the 
> OpenLDAP server should send back a list of groups that the authenticated user 
> will belong to when a shell is created for it in the CentOS box. This 
> information should supersede what groups information local to the CentOS box.
> 
> I have an LDAP schema in the OpenLDAP server system that almost achieves what 
> I want - but not quite. In the CentOS system I currently have a file named 
> mysite.ldif with the following contents:
> 
> # extended LDIF
> #
> # LDAPv3
> # base <dc=mysite,dc=com> with scope subtree
> # filter: (objectclass=*)
> # requesting: ALL
> #
> 
> # mysite.com
> dn: dc=mysite,dc=com
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: dcObject
> objectClass: organization
> o: MySite
> dc: mysite
> 
> # People, mysite.com
> dn: ou=People,dc=mysite,dc=com
> ou: People
> objectClass: organizationalUnit
> 
> # Group, mysite.com
> dn: ou=Group,dc=mysite,dc=com
> ou: Group
> objectClass: organizationalUnit
> 
> # firstgroup, Group, mysite.com
> dn: cn=firstgroup,ou=Group,dc=mysite,dc=com
> objectClass: posixGroup
> objectClass: top
> cn: onegroup
> userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fXg=
> gidNumber: 1001
> memberUid: FirstUser
> memberUid: SecondUser
> 
> # secondgroup, Group, mysite.com
> dn: cn=secondgroup,ou=Group,dc=mysite,dc=com
> objectClass: posixGroup
> objectClass: top
> cn: twogroup
> userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fXg=
> gidNumber: 1002
> memberUid: FirstUser
> 
> # FirstUser, People, mysite.com
> dn: uid=FirstUser,ou=People,dc=mysite,dc=com
> uid: FirstUser
> cn: FirstUser
> objectClass: account
> objectClass: posixAccount
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: shadowAccount
> shadowLastChange: 14250
> shadowMax: 99999
> shadowWarning: 7
> loginShell: /bin/bash
> uidNumber: 1014
> gidNumber: 1014
> homeDirectory: /home/FirstUser
> gecos: ,,,
> userPassword:: TXlQYXNzd29yZAo=
> 
> # SecondUser, People, mysite.com
> dn: uid=SecondUser,ou=People,dc=mysite,dc=com
> uid: SecondUser
> cn: SecondUser
> objectClass: account
> objectClass: posixAccount
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: shadowAccount
> shadowLastChange: 14002
> shadowMax: 99999
> shadowWarning: 7
> loginShell: /bin/bash
> uidNumber: 1005
> gidNumber: 1005
> homeDirectory: /home/SecondUser
> gecos: ,,,
> userPassword:: T3RoZXJQYXNzd29yZAo=
> 
> After starting my OpenLDAP server, I load this information into the OpenLDAP 
> server's database with
> 
>     ldapadd -D uid=root,ou=People,dc=mysite,dc=com -x -w ThePassword -f 
> mysite.ldif
> 
> Now assuming that LDAP authentication is enabled in the Linux server, and 
> that PAM in this system will delegate its authentication to the OpenLDAP 
> server above, the authentication works fine (assuming the correct password is 
> entered, of course) but the groups information does not seem to be extracted 
> correctly. After successfully logging in as users FirstUser, if from the 
> command line I invoke
> 
>     groups FirstUser
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
>     FirstUser : user onegroup onegroup twogroup twogroup
> 
> I do not understand why 'onegroup' and 'twogroup' are repeated. For 
> completeness, the /etc/nsswitch.conf file in the CentOS system contains 
> (among other things) the following line:
> 
>    group:  ldap [SUCCESS=return] files
> 
> Any feedback on this issue will be welcome. It should be clear by now that I 
> am not, by any means, an expert on things LDAP; my apologies if I am doing 
> something stupid or misguided.
> 

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