[CentOS] Centos+AD integration (uid/gid problems)

Tue Mar 29 17:18:21 UTC 2011
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

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