In my opinion the whole rfc3704bis implementation of net groups is wonky.

This isn’t the only problem. Why is there a distinction between internal and 
external hosts? Suppose I add an external host to a net group, and later do ipa 
host-add for it. If the distinction actually matters I’d expect the system to 
turn the external host entry into an internal host entry. But it doesn’t.

In principle there’s a difference between blank and -, but the ipa 
implementation always produces - for missing user and host and blank for 
missing domain name.

I’d really rather see the system just store the triples rather than doing a 
complex mapping going in and out.


> On Nov 8, 2017, at 5:08 PM, Jakub Hrozek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Pavel, does this sound like the bug you were looking at wrt sudo lately?
> 
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:46:25PM +0000, Charles Hedrick wrote:
>> Netapp wants the domain field to be blank. That leaves us a problem that’s 
>> hard to solve.
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Charles Hedrick 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> OK, I see what’s going on, but it looks like a bug.
>> 
>> We mostly use net groups for hosts. In NIS our entries like like 
>> (hostname,,)  You can put that into IPA by specifying NISdomain=, i.e. blank 
>> domain name. However if you do that, getent shows no entries. That is, 
>> entries with blank hostname are ignored. I claim this is a bug, since for a 
>> host entry there’s no reason to specify a domain.
>> 
>> I also found that specifying
>> 
>> ipa_netgroup_domain=cs.rutgers.edu<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.rutgers.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Chedrick%40rutgers.edu%7Cfdea024ced1e456bf72208d526f561b0%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636457757716393543&sdata=AA3P65kxArCD2WkRwAkGV5ci5jaCN54AZKPZ%2B8O4tbc%3D&reserved=0>
>> 
>> causes no net groups to display, even ones whose domain is 
>> cs.rutgers.edu<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.rutgers.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Chedrick%40rutgers.edu%7Cfdea024ced1e456bf72208d526f561b0%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C636457757716393543&sdata=AA3P65kxArCD2WkRwAkGV5ci5jaCN54AZKPZ%2B8O4tbc%3D&reserved=0>.
>>  This also looks like a bug.
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Charles Hedrick 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> We want to move our net groups from NIS to IPA. I’ve loaded the groups. 
>> They’re visible on a system that uses nslcd pointed at the IPA server. But 
>> the systems that use SSSD for authentication don’t show anything. The net 
>> groups all show as undefined.
>> 
>> I’ve turned on debugging and looked at the LDAP logs. It does the right 
>> quotes and the log says it extracts the members. But they don’t show up.
>> 
>> Any idea where to look?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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