id showing different results

[Lutz Behnke]

Hi there,

I have trouble with the id command.

We store user authentication information on an LDAP-Server and access it
via the nsswitch facility, and use the nscd.

The problem now is that I get different results, wether a user calls the
id command with its own user name or without.

Example:

user_a> id

uid=4711(user_a) gid=50(users) groups=50(users),815(ldap_grp1)

user_a> id user_a

uid=4711(user_a) gid=50(users)
groups=50(users),815(ldap_grp1),816(ldap_grp2), 820(ldap_grpx).....

if only local group (users in this example) would be returned, I would
simply point fingers at the ldap connection, but that is not the case.

I have looked at the source code in the gimp repository but don't claim
to fully understand it. My impression is that both cases call mgetgroups
in the end and print the results. But that would not explain the
differing results above.

Could you please get me some hints what is causing this behavior.

TIA

mfg lutz
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Lutz Behnke
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg,
Labor für Allgemeine Informatik,

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