id -G funny group

I don't know if this is really a bug. But I would like to request some comments

On a system with afs, if you run

$ id -G
500 1102830893

you will get this very big number at the end.

$ id -G `whoami`
500

will not show this number. This is due to afs creating a group in
memory that is not in /etc/group . This of course becomes more
interesting if you run :

$ id -Gn
me id: cannot find name for group ID 1102830893
1102830893

groups behaves in the same way :
$ groups
me id: cannot find name for group ID 1102830893
1102830893

If you look into the id.c you can see why this is happening:
if (argc - optind == 1)
{
struct passwd *pwd = getpwnam (argv[optind]); /* Will go of to
/etc/nsswitch.conf and appropriate*/
if (pwd == NULL)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("%s: No such user"), argv[optind]);
ruid = euid = pwd->pw_uid;
rgid = egid = pwd->pw_gid;
}
else
{
euid = geteuid (); /* glibc will do this */
ruid = getuid ();
egid = getegid ();
rgid = getgid ();
}

This is very easy to fix. I have already done this and it works.

I am aware that this is actually a problem of afs and not coreutils.

Hope this might help someone who is confused about that group :)