I'm running a Samba Active Directory domain with Ubuntu 18.04 clients.
I used the /etc/security/group.conf file to successfully create a mapping for domain users to the "dialout" group. I tested it on a number of machines, and it worked fine...
rightmire@testpc:~$ groups
domain users dialout master BUILTIN+users rightmire
However, today for no apparent reason - it is no longer mapping the dialout group...
rightmire@testpc:~$ groups
domain users master BUILTIN+users rightmire
Re-running pam-auth-update does seem to see the groups.conf...
I'm not sure how to begin troubleshooting this. Searching for group.conf or pam-auth-update in the logs comes up with nothing. I'm not seeing anything pertinent in syslog or auth.log
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FILES:
root@testpc:~# cat /etc/security/group.conf | sed '/^#/d'
*;*;*;Al0000-2400;dialout
root@testpc:~# cat /usr/share/pam-configs/my_groups
Name: activate /etc/security/group.conf
Default: yes
Priority: 900
Auth-Type: Primary
Auth:
required pam_group.so use_first_pass
root@testpc:~# DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive pam-auth-update
root@testpc:~#
(I.e. no error...)
UPDATE:
It seems that the problem only appears with su - user or local login (even though the local login is via the domain).
I.e. If I login via ssh as the user, the dialout group appears fine...
rightmire@localPC:~$ ssh rightmire@remotePC
Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64)
(...snip...)
68 packages can be updated.
43 updates are security updates.
rightmire@remotePC:~$ groups
domain users dialout master BUILTIN+users
rightmire@remotePC:~$
But if I su - rightmire, it does not appear...
root@remotePC:~# su - rightmire
rightmire@remotePC:~$ groups
domain users master BUILTIN+users domain admins denied rodc password replication group staff konstrukteure vicongroup h2t rightmire
rightmire@remotePC:~$
UPDATE
I have looked in the /etc/pam.d. The two files which contain a reference to pam_group.so are common-auth and login
./common-auth:auth required pam_group.so use_first_pass
./login:auth optional pam_group.so
However, the majority of the (login pertinent) files (including su and sudo which DON'T set the group, as well as sshd which DOES set the groups) include common-auth ...
./chfn:@include common-auth
./chsh:@include common-auth
./cron:@include common-auth
./cups:@include common-auth
./gdm-password:@include common-auth
./lightdm:@include common-auth
./login:@include common-auth
./other:@include common-auth
./polkit-1:@include common-auth
./samba:@include common-auth
./slock:@include common-auth
./sshd:@include common-auth
./su:@include common-auth
./sudo:@include common-auth
