Ubuntu
nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #335858
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 335858

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Aaron Thomas (athomas-work) wrote :

I have this problem on every version of ubuntu to date.

My setup are two kinds of systems (we have hundreds of these systems deployed).

If we configure users with nfsv4 on systems with NIS (no kerberos. just a vanilla NIS implementation), idmapd works great.

If we configure machines identically but instead of configuring NIS we configure for our LDAP server. nfsv4 gets uids of 4294967294 . debug output of idmapd shows it idle on the ldap configuration. Meanwhile getent shows all users appropriately and users can log into the server fine.

So, in other words, coming from another angle where kerberos is not configured at all, we get a non-functioning nfs client on LDAP systems. This has been an unsolvable problem peventing us from retiring NIS for LDAP for 5 years.