[Fedora-directory-users] Group name not gid

[Diwakoe]

Hi Ashley,

Thanks for your docs, but how about directory listing? when root log
in and doing command "ls -al" on home folder is showing user name,
group and folder. But only user name is show correctly but the group
is only gid.

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drwxr-xr-x 4 JWilliam 10001  4096 Jun  4 14:56 JWilliam
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Regards,
Diwa

On 6/13/07, ashley <ashley at csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Normal users don't have the necessary permissions to do the lookup on
> LDAP.
>
> The authentication process is done usally by root then when you are logged
> in you can't do lookups.
>
> I've documented this here
>
> http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/fedora-ds-26072006.html
>
> In Section 3.3 Binding Linux/Unix Machines to LDAPs
>
> (way at the bottom)
>
> Short story is turn on NSCD, this service binds as root but caches the
> information for the local user. Usually information you should cache is
> passwd, group and aliases information which you have to edit
> /etc/nscd.conf
>
> You might want to check this out for NSCD
>
> http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/Fedora%20Miscellaneous%20Problems-23082006.htm
>
>                                         Regards Ashley
>