On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
This is a small lab-type setting but I'm trying to merge two sets of machines set up by different groups to have a common home directory server that all the others automount. The number of users is small enough that I'll just 'usermod' them into the same uid numbers, but I don't see why it is worth running the idmapd daemon at all, when all it does is map everyone to nobody if you forget to set the domains identically. And after fixing the uids to match, is there any advantage to nfsv4 at all?
Reviving an old thread... I had this all working with an initial set of users across several machines where all users had the same user id and idmapd.conf had the same Domain set. /home is exported from one machine, and everything showed the right ownership. However, when I add new users, again keeping the same uid numbers across all hosts, the mounted instances show as 'nobody' for the new users. Is there some magic short of a reboot to make it recognize the new user ids? A reboot does fix it, 'service rpcidmapd restart or force-reload' does not, unmounting /home and remounting also does not.