[Fedora-directory-users] Random UID not found problem

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 14:51:55 UTC 2008


markwu at micron.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Some of our users get "UID xxxx not found"  message when they open a 
> new terminal or run a rsh command, it appears a few times a day and  
> it is mostly just annoying message because users can continue to work 
> as normal, however, sometimes It also causes  cron jobs to fail,
>
> In system log, it shows,
>
> crond(pam_unix)[9225]: could not identify user (from getpwnam(USERNAME))
> crond[9225]: User not known to the underlying authentication module
>
> We are using Fedora DS 1.0.4, and clients are RHEL 4.5 . This problem 
> started ever since we switched into LDAP three months ago.
>
Look at the DS access logs from around the time of the failure to see if 
you get a failed BIND or SEARCH attempt.
>
> Thanks
>
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