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Old 02-04-2013, 05:26 PM   #1
tzone
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Directory / file ownership intermittenly revert back to nobody or UID (Winbind? Samba? NFS?)


To all linux masters,

I have a problem with our RHEL6 servers.

Probably best i inform the condition and configuration first.
1. All of them are joined to windows AD domain, with this smb.conf:

workgroup = mydomain
password server = *
realm = mydomain.com
security = ads
idmap uid = 17000000-33554431
idmap gid = 17000000-33554431
template homedir = /nethome/%U
template shell = /bin/bash
winbind use default domain = true
winbind offline logon = false
idmap backend = idmap_rid:mydomain=17000000-33554431

2. User's home directory is on NFS share (called /nethome).
The NFS server is set on computer 1 and all the other RHELs map to this NFS share.

3. Domain users are now able to login using their AD credential: yes

4. When new domain user login, home folder for the user is created on /nethome : yes

Example:
drwxr-xr-x. 7 user01 domainusers 4096 Jan 22 12:42 user01

5. All users have the same UID across all the RHELs: yes
Example (checkec on all RHELs):
id user01

Result: uid=17011733(user01) gid=17000513(domainusers) groups=17000513(domainusers)


Problem:
*) Intermittenly, the user's home directory on /nethome (and its sub dirs and files) changed to "nobody" or the UID number "17011733"

Example:

drwxr-xr-x. 7 nobody domainusers 4096 Jan 3 13:36 user01

or sometime

drwxr-xr-x. 7 17011733 domainusers 4096 Jan 3 13:36 user01

*) at the same time, on other RHELs, the same /nethome/user01 home folder can:
- sometime can have a correct ownership (showing user01 domainusers)
- sometime can have UID number 17011733 or "nobody"

So when there is a problem with the same directory (NFS share home folder), the ownership will be different across all the RHELs that map to the same NFS share.

I suspect it must have to do with the local service on each machine.
Is it winbind problem? samba problem? NFS problem?

Anyone has a clue?

Thanks in advance....
 
  


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