invalid gid : error -2

ocar

Hi

We have found a strange error in our log, see below.
It has got something to do with groupID="-2" for group "nobody" and application IWFS iwgetcred.

The problem is that the application believes something is wrong. The user iwui primary group is "-2" (nobody). Could it be that the application is complaining about this "negative GID"?

We have found that the GID=4294967294 and the GID=-2 is the same number (unsigned resp. signed 32 bit integer). I guess this means that there is nothing wrong with the system setup?

We are running TeamSite 5.5.2 on AIX, and it seams to work fine, but a bit slow.


------------ from error log ---------------------------------

LABEL: SYSLOG
IDENTIFIER: ...

Date/Time: Tue Mar 30 12:39:56 DFT
Sequence Number: 116340
...
Class: S
Type: UNKN
Resource Name: IWFS iwgetcred

Description
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Detail Data
SYSLOG MESSAGE
invalid gid : error -2
Duplicates
Number of duplicates
264
Time of first duplicate
Tue Mar 30 12:39:54 DFT
Time of last duplicate
Tue Mar 30 12:39:56 DFT
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Any ideas?

BR
/Oskar

Adam Stoller

I thought all GID's had to be unsigned integers - and thus '-2' would be an invalid GID.

In this case, given the fact that it thinks it found 264 duplicate GID's (all with a value of '-2') I'd suggest first checking your group file, or if you are using LDAP for group id's - make sure that everything is configured correctly to get to the LDAP server and that the LDAP server is functioning correctly.

If you go to a shell prompt and type either:
groups iwui
or
id -a iwui
What kind of output do you get?


--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com