Re: id -Gn user doesn't show all groups

[Jim Meyering]

Matt Selsky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Solaris groups and GNU id disagree when printing the groups that a user
> belongs to.
>
> $ /usr/bin/groups selsky
> staff src www
> $ /opt/coreutils-5.0/bin/id -Gn selsky
> staff
>
> GNU id seems to be opening /etc/nsswitch.conf according to truss, so it
> should be reaching the same LDAP backend as /usr/bin/group for group
> data.
>
> Is this a bug?  Did I build coreutils incorrectly?

Thanks for the report.

I can't reproduce that on a Solaris 9 system.
Would you please send me the output from running those programs
via truss?