*very* interesting to know, thanks for sharing what you've found! Matthias
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:04:58 +0000 "Feldt, Andrew N." <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian, > > I went to verify the response I originally began for this > message and used other accounts than my own for testing > ls -l /home/username (before, I just used mine because > I first tested with that and found this problem). > > To my surprise, I found that the id mapping works fine > for all of our user accounts *except* mine! This > account has uid and gid of 900. I have other accounts > with numbers below this, so it is not some minimum > cutoff. I also have other accounts in my group > (all with gid 900) which map the username properly > but the gid for 900 is still shown as 'nobody' for > them (as expected since that is how it is shown for > my account. > > I discovered a change in nfs-utils which provides the > new command nfsidmap (see its man page for details). > I find that, if I run 'nfsidmap -c' after booting > the problem is resolved. It appears that there has > been a change in the way ids are mapped so that they > are cached. And, something in our boot process must > access my uid/gid (e.g. my account) before ypbind is > run and so these get cached as 'nobody'. However, > this begs the question of the startup ordering of > rpcidmapd, ypbind and autofs since I have no > special script of any sort that is run in between > rpcidmapd and autofs. I will try to dig into this > further, but we should not have to work around this > caching issue. > > Andy > > On Jun 24, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 17:22 +0000, Feldt, Andrew N. wrote: > > > >> Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, this does not help the > >> idmapper problem. And, we had no problem actually automounting > >> the file systems. The only problem is in the id mapping. > > > > So is the problem with autofs or with rpcidmapd? Every time I've > > seen this, the fix has been: > > > > umount file_system > > service rpcidmapd restart > > mount file_system > > > > > > -- > > Ian > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhelv6-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list -- Matthias Saou ██ ██ ██ ██ Web: http://matthias.saou.eu/ ██████████████ Mail/XMPP: [email protected] ████ ██████ ████ ██████████████████████ GPG: 4096R/E755CC63 ██ ██████████████ ██ 8D91 7E2E F048 9C9C 46AF ██ ██ ██ ██ 21A9 7A51 7B82 E755 CC63 ████ ████ _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
