Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:25:17 -0700 From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: chown silently fails to respect NSS Message-ID: <CAPi0pst--D8Xn8p1oJkF2k_He0JjJk24YbdcRbYVVB_fg6p33A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPi0psuHon-nQHZnny32_m8F5FQKoVN4gVh%2BVmn1pnwRuUN0ZA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPi0psuHon-nQHZnny32_m8F5FQKoVN4gVh%2BVmn1pnwRuUN0ZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote: > Why is chown is silently failing to chown a file to a winbind user > that is listed in 'getent passwd'? > root@zinc:~/temp # getent passwd MYDOMAIN\\cstankevitz > MYDOMAIN\cstankevitz:*:4294967295:4294967295:Chris > Stankevitz:/home/MYDOMAIN/cstankevitz:/bin/false > > root@zinc:~/temp # chown -v -v MYDOMAIN\\cstankevitz file.txt > > root@zinc:~/temp # ls -l > total 1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jun 23 11:34 file.txt - chown silently fails when you pass the ridiculous UID 4294967295 (2^32-1) - winbind was populating UID 4294967295 because I failed to supply an idmap backend/range for the default domain. This is apparently needed to capture a special pseudo-domain called BUILTIN. Chris
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