samba - Aug 2005 - Finding the GID of AD groups on samba

Hi Folks:

A couple weeks ago, the list helped me develop the way to find the UID
of users on my AD system.  At the time I did not think that it would be
necessary to know the GID of the AD Groups, but I am hitting some snags
where I need to change the group ownership of folders etc.  

I suspect that the necessary command is a variant of the getent command,
but man getent has not yielded where I should look for them.

Can someone point me in the right direction.  Specifically, what I am
looking for is a command that will allow me to generate a list of all
the user groups on the system and their GID.  This will allow me to
chgrp the folders as necessary.  

Thanks

TIM


Timothy A. Holmes
 
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Tim Holmes [tholmes@mcaschool.net] wrote:
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction.  Specifically, what I am
> looking for is a command that will allow me to generate a list of all
> the user groups on the system and their GID.  This will allow me to
> chgrp the folders as necessary.  
getent groups 

;-)))

Generally, "getent" is meant to dump the contents of every NSS
database that supports enumeration. Of course what you'd enumerate
depends on your privileges too. You will find all databases unix
machine uses in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

There are also utilities for working with individual databases. 
For example "id" for "getent passwd", "groups" for
"getent groups".

Cheers, 

-- 
Michal Kurowski
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> Tim Holmes [tholmes@mcaschool.net] wrote:
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction.  Specifically, what I
am
> > looking for is a command that will allow me to generate a list of
all
> > the user groups on the system and their GID.  This will allow me to
> > chgrp the folders as necessary.
> 
> getent groups
> 
> ;-)))
> 
> Generally, "getent" is meant to dump the contents of every NSS
> database that supports enumeration. Of course what you'd enumerate
> depends on your privileges too. You will find all databases unix
> machine uses in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> 
> There are also utilities for working with individual databases.
> For example "id" for "getent passwd",
"groups" for "getent groups".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Michal Kurowski
[Tim Holmes] 

Michal:

here is the output


[root@srvfs-02 ~]# getent groups
Unknown database: groups
Try `getent --help' or `getent --usage' for more information.
[root@srvfs-02 ~]#


Tim