[Samba] Re: Finding the GID of AD groups on samba

[Tim Holmes]

> Tim Holmes [tholmes at 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 at srvfs-02 ~]# getent groups
Unknown database: groups
Try `getent --help' or `getent --usage' for more information.
[root at srvfs-02 ~]#


Tim