Hello all-

Been working on this for 2 full days now. In the past I just added users to my system and migrated them to LDAP users. Those mount perfectly file on the client machines. However, if I create a strict-only LDAP user using an .ldif file and add it to the database using ldapadd, these users all come up as nobody nobody (and the directories are created with root but chowned to their uid.gid respectively as well as /etc/skel copied over via rysnc -a.)

All conf files are set up properly including the /etc/idmapd.conf on both the server and client machines. The folders for users strictly in LDAP are uid gid on the LDAP server. The folders for regular users that have been migrated of course do show their corresponding names as evident in /etc/passwd.

So how can I get these strictly-only LDAP users to propagate with their intended username groupname as they should?

Much help appreciated.

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I went as far as adding a new schema into the LDAP database, adding an automounting ldif, editing sssd.conf and adding autofs entries, so basically mounting my home directory straight from the ldap database, but the users still do not map. I don't have DNS set up but I don't think it is the issue. It seems to be an nfsidmap issue as my only error in the log files persist with:

nfsidmap[1648]: nss_getpwnam: name 'nobody' does not map into domain <my-domain.net>

Don't we have any administrators here??