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March 22nd, 2011 16:00
Documentation bug regarding Celerra group file
We're testing NFSv4 which requires a user/group database (either local files or LDAP/NIS) on the datamover.
Username/UID mapping was working properly, but group/GID mapping was not.
The Celerra Naming Services (6.0) doc on page 21 lists the format of the group file as:
groupname:gid:user_list
But the proper format includes a field for the group password:
groupname:password:gid:user_list
The password field is often blank (x).
Hope this helps someone else avoid the hassle we ran into.
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Rainer_EMC
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March 22nd, 2011 17:00
Hi Jeff,
thanks for the feedback – I‘ll pass that along to the TechPubs group for correction
Rainer
jwasilko
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March 23rd, 2011 08:00
Rainer:
It also looks like there's a bug in the docs for the passwd file. I noticed this in the datamover server_log:
2011-03-23 11:01:34: SECURITY: 4: The malformed entry user name (pw_name) is root, its colon count is 4
2011-03-23 11:01:34: SECURITY: 4: Passwd file has malformed entry: less than 6 colons
It appears to work with the passwd file as documented, but it's logging errors. It'd be great to see it fixed in the next release of docs.
-jeff