[Hoary] Centos NIS server, Hoary NIS client, groups don't match

[P Jones]

On 7/24/05, crashtest <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> To use the groups on the nis server, change the file /etc/nsswitch.conf
> on the ubuntu client, so that the groups line reads  'group:
> nis files'
> 
> 
> 
> of course if you want to ubuntu machine's groups to take priority, you
> would reverse the order: files nis.  Basically this is just a search
> order that determines which group list takes priority.
> 
> 
> --
> crashtest
> 
> 

Hi crashtest;

Unfortunately your suggestion doesn't do what I need it to do. I
think, and I'm no expert here, that even if I get the NIS client
(ubuntu) to look at the group file on the server first, since there
isn't an audio group by default on Redhat/Centos, permission to use
devices in the audio group is not given to the user.

This is the thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31542&highlight=NIS that I
referred to in my previous post. Further searching shows some other
people having what I think is the same issue.

This can't be the first time someone has implimented NIS in a mixed
environment where group IDs don't match up. I considered creating some
matching groups on the server, but some of the GUIDs would conflict,
specifically audio on Ubuntu would conflict with the rpcuser group on
Centos (GUID 29).

Anyone else?

Thanks,

-P