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# 1  
Old 11-30-2009
Secondary group info source
Experts,

I know when I use id it shows only the primary group information for the given user, and that info comes from passwd file. When I use groups it shows all groups user are member of, however from where come information given by groups command?

Code:
grep fmtt3990 /etc/passwd
fmtt3990:x:261869:1500:Felipe Mattos:/home/fmtt3990:/usr/bin/ksh

groups fmtt3990
osadmins vrtadm usaudit

id fmtt3990
uid=261869(fmtt3990) gid=1500(osadmins)

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 11-30-2009
/etc/groups
# 3  
Old 12-01-2009
Bartus11,

Right after I posted it I realized the dummy question I made; in fact in almost all machines I own what you said is true, however only on this one, from where I took the info to paste here that isn't. Wonder why is this machine different from all others on my organization. There is another place that it can be stored?

Code:
egrep "(osadmins|vrtadm|usaudit)" /etc/group
osadmins::1500:
vrtadm::11433:
usaudit::508:

Thanks.
# 4  
Old 12-01-2009
It might be in a NIS, NIS+ or LDAP group map.
# 5  
Old 12-01-2009
How do I check that? I'm on task to standardize all Unix access on my organization, want to have all servers with same template.

Thanks.
# 6  
Old 12-01-2009
That command will tell you where the group maps are coming from:
Code:
grep "^group" /etc/nsswitch.conf

# 7  
Old 12-01-2009
Oh yeah! Hot diggity! Now I see how it is configured. Makes me wonder why it is not documented on our server history database, I'm going to nag on my engineers. =)

Thanks everyone by the help.
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