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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.

  • Rainer_EMC

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    Posted March 22nd, 2011 17:00

    Hi Jeff,

    thanks for the feedback – I‘ll pass that along to the TechPubs group for correction

    Rainer

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    Posted 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