Bug 790554 - secondary group memberships not picked up when using nss db backend
Summary: secondary group memberships not picked up when using nss db backend
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Jeff Law
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-14 20:20 UTC by Robert Kennedy
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-17 05:16:22 UTC
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Description Robert Kennedy 2012-02-14 20:20:39 UTC 
Description of problem:

The secondary group memberships are not computed correctly when using the db backend in nss.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
cd /var/db; make
Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to force group and initgroups to use db backend with no files fallback.
  
Actual results:

# getent group wheel
wheel:x:10:robertk
# groups robertk
robertk : robertk

Expected results:

# getent group wheel
wheel:x:10:robertk
# groups robertk
robertk : robertk wheel
Comment 1 Alexandre Oliva 2012-02-17 02:46:32 UTC 
This is caused by a typo in the group.db rule in /var/db/Makefile.  It's fixed in glibc commit 98591e582047b308de2ed0621088edad5d3cdf8a.  The printf format string ":%s $s %s\n" near the end of the rule should have another % instead of the $.
Comment 2 Jeff Law 2012-02-17 05:16:22 UTC 
This is fixed in rawhide & f17.  I'm not planning to backport to F16.  I realize it's a small change, but my focus is shifting to issues affecting F17.
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