On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > 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 If you use something like Centrify Express or Likewise Open, the UID/GIDs are calculated the same way every time on every system that uses the software so it makes, IMO, setup & management a lot easier. Chris