RE: OT Linux problem

Jared,  

You can use getent on boxes where LDAP/AD authentication is enabled. It will give details of gid and uid in LDAP/AD. See man page of getent for more details.    

bash-3.00$ getent
usage: getent database [ key ... ]

bash-3.00$ getent passwd guptav
guptav:x:20202:20:Vishal Gupta:/home/guptav:/bin/ksh  

bash-3.00$ getent group | grep dba
bash-3.00$ getent group | grep guptav      

Regards,
Vishal Gupta
http://www.vishalgupta.com

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Jared Still Sent: Tue 21/10/2008 01:46
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Re: OT Linux problem

problem solved.

Windows authentication through is enabled on this server.

A user can logon with the same account that is used to logon to Windows servers.

There was a dba group in Active Directory.

ls -ldn revealed that rather than group 300, files set to dba by root were being created with the GID from Winbind.

resolution: rename the AD group from dba to ldba (not being used anyway)

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

        I seem to be experiencing one of 2 things here:         

1. I can't see something right in front of me
2. Permissions are not working as expected.

	Create a directory as root, change owner to oracle:dba, 
	and enable group write permissions.
	
	as root:
	
	# mkdir -p exp/pr09
	# chown -R oracle:dba exp
	# chmod -R g+w exp
	# ls -ld exp exp/pr09
	drwxrwxr-x  3 oracle dba 4096 Oct 20 16:04 exp
	drwxrwxr-x  2 oracle dba 4096 Oct 20 16:04 exp/pr09
	
	Try to create a file in new directory - fails
	
	as jkstill:
	


	> pwd

	/u01/exp/pr09
	


	> touch x

	touch: cannot touch `x': Permission denied
	


	> rm /tmp/x

	> touch /tmp/x

	> ls -l /tmp/x

	-rw-r-----  1 jkstill dba 0 Oct 20 16:06 /tmp/x
	


	> ls -ld .

	drwxrwxr-x  2 oracle dba 4096 Oct 20 16:04 .
	
	as root:
	
	# chmod o+w exp/pr09
	
	as jkstill:
	


	> pwd

	/u01/exp/pr09
	


	> touch x

	> ls -ld x

	-rw-r-----  1 jkstill dba 0 Oct 20 16:08 x
	
	Any clues as to why group permissions are not allowing me to write to this directory?
	
	I'm fully prepared to feel stupid...
	
	Jared Still
	Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
	
	

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