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Bug 1114220

Summary: pam_group does not support unix groups
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Arpit Tolani <atolani>
Component: pamAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.5CC: dapospis, pkis, salmy
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: pam-1.1.1-22.el6 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2016-05-11 00:25:02 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Arpit Tolani 2014-06-28 19:40:31 UTC
Description of problem:
RHEL6 does not seem to support the %group syntax in /etc/security/group.conf.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-1.1.1-17.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Additional info:

It looks like it is fixed here. 

commit 0e73991710adce250f8cc56040528ae25e68bad0
Author: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk>
Date:   Wed Aug 4 13:00:59 2010 +0000

    Relevant BUGIDs: #3035919, #3002340, #3037155
    
    Purpose of commit: bugfix
    
    Commit summary:
    ---------------
    
    2010-08-04  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk>
    
            * modules/pam_access/pam_access.c (user_match): Make sure
            that user@host will not match @@netgroup. Bug #3035919.
    
            * modules/pam_group/pam_group.c (check_account): Add '%' for
            UNIX groups.
            * modules/pam_group/group.conf: Add example for '%'.
            * modules/pam_group/group.conf.5.xml: Document '%' syntax.
            Bug #3002340, #3037155.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-11 00:25:02 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0901.html