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Re: Cached user info?



On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 17:11 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: 
> On Monday, 7 May 2012 16:22:58 Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:27 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > > On Monday, 7 May 2012 08:04:34 Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 
> > > > If I remove the user from the group in LDAP, that is reflected in the
> > > > output of "groups".  But, when I add it back, "groups" shows the
> > > > (local) group associated with the old GID, not the new one.
> > > > 
> > > > So it's as if something on the client side has gotten the group *name*
> > > > from LDAP and has locally cached an association with the old GID.
> > > 
> > > You have a local group and an LDAP group, with the same name, and
> > > different GIDs?
> > 
> > Not "have"; *had*.  I changed the LDAP group GID to match the local grou
> > GID.  But "groups" still shows the local group associated with the old
> > GID.
> 
> So, you no longer have local and LDAP groups with the same *name* ?

I do; but that name is not what shows up in the out put of "groups" (or
"id").  There is no corresponding group name "pulse-access" in LDAP and
there is no LDAP group with GID 990.

> If so, there is something weird. 

That is my impression.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden@endoframe.com>