Secondary group information lost after adding NIS user into a local group on the NIS client machine

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • NIS group information missing on NIS client after local groups are added.

  • NIS account

[root@server] # id nisuser
uid=6901(nisuser) gid=2001(Group1) groups=2001(Group1),2102(Group2)
  • Local Group Addition
[root@server] # usermod -aG localgroup nisuser
  • Secondary group Group2 information missing
[root@server] # id nisuser
uid=6901(nisuser) gid=2001(Group1) groups=2001(Group1),1003(localgroup)

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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