Hello
I don't know if this is really a bug. But I would like to request some comments
On a system with afs, if you run
$ id -G
500 1102830893
you will get this very big number at the end.
$ id -G `whoami`
500
will not show this number. This is due to afs creating a group in
memory that is not in /etc/group . This of course becomes more
interesting if you run :
$ id -Gn
me id: cannot find name for group ID 1102830893
1102830893
groups behaves in the same way :
$ groups
me id: cannot find name for group ID 1102830893
1102830893
If you look into the id.c you can see why this is happening:
if (argc - optind == 1)
{
struct passwd *pwd = getpwnam (argv[optind]); /* Will go of to
/etc/nsswitch.conf and appropriate*/
if (pwd == NULL)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("%s: No such user"), argv[optind]);
ruid = euid = pwd->pw_uid;
rgid = egid = pwd->pw_gid;
}
else
{
euid = geteuid (); /* glibc will do this */
ruid = getuid ();
egid = getegid ();
rgid = getgid ();
}
This is very easy to fix. I have already done this and it works.
I am aware that this is actually a problem of afs and not coreutils.
FYI:
$ uname -a
Linux mypc 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Mon Feb 4 10:15:50 CET 2008
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hope this might help someone who is confused about that group :)
Cheers Didi
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