On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 06:07:46PM +0100, nux at li.nux.ro wrote: > Hi, > > I need to have several EL machines in an AD env. > Joining the machines was easier than expected using authconfig, but what > happens now is that blahdomain\blahuser gets assigned a > different, random ID each time I use a different station. > In AD I did specify the UID and GID in the UNIX Attributes tab for blahuser, > but it gets totally ignored; so do the other values (for home, shell etc). > > Ideally I'd have all the users assigned a static uid and gid from AD and > have /home on all machines mounted from NFS; but right now if I log in with > blahuser to another machine my $HOME is owned by another random id. > > Sugesstions? What am I missing? I'm quite a noob with Windows :) > > Cheers You might try taking a look at idmap_ad(8) (and the other idmap_* man pages as well). I'm not sure which idmap backend gets used by default (RID?). I did think idmap_rid would result in consistent UID/GID mappings based on the SID assuming you choose the same ranges on each server... Ray