Krb5 auth and supplemental groups

Steve Gaarder gaarder at math.cornell.edu
Tue Sep 5 09:14:00 EDT 2006


On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:52:08PM -0400, Steve Gaarder wrote:
>> I've got a client that mounts a filesystem with sec=krb5.  Things work
>> fine except for group permissions.  Users' supplemental groups are
>> ignored; only the primary group seems to be recognized.  This is under Red
>> Hat Enterprise 4.  Any ideas?
>
> With sec=krb5, the supplemental groups are determined entirely by the
> server.  So I assume the list of groups should be essentially what you'd
> see if you logged into the server and ran "id username".

Yes, that's also my understanding.  Logging in and running "id" on the 
server shows the groups I expect to see, but I get "permission denied" on 
the client when I try to write to a directory that is writable by one of 
those groups.  Any further thoughts?

thanks,

Steve Gaarder



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