[rhelv6-list] NFSv4 automount - nss_getpwnam name 'user at domain.com' does not map into domain 'localdomain'

[Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov]

rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 01/18/2011 06:29:07 PM:

> Am doing a kickstart installation of RHEL 6.0 vanilla (no errata
> applied).
>
> After reboot, when using the automounter to access NFSv4 shares
> (running on Fedora 13), we see the following in the logs on the RHEL6
> client:
>
> Jan 18 15:56:16 rhel6test rpc.idmapd[1387]: nss_getpwnam: name
> 'root at esri.com' does not map into domain 'localdomain'
> Jan 18 15:56:16 rhel6test rpc.idmapd[1387]: nss_getpwnam: name
> 'ray5147 at esri.com' does not map into domain 'localdomain'
>
> As a result, directories are not mapped to the correct users but
> instead to 'nobody'.
>
> This is odd, because per the idmap man pages, the default domain used
> by rpc.idmapd should be the same as the system domain minus the
> hostname.  This should be esri.com, and is when I type hostname.
>
> Thinking that perhaps rpc.idmapd was started before the network
> subsystem, I restarted it.  Immediately everything worked fine.
>
> I rebooted the system assuming the problem would return, but it didn't.
> Maybe there's a cache used by rpc.idmapd (nscd?)?  Is there something
> else maybe I'm missing?
>
> Trying to determine if the "right" thing to do is to leave my
> configuration as default or if I should be modifying /etc/idmapd.conf
> to set a default domain.


shot in the dark... is your real hostname also mapped to
localhost.localdomain in /etc/hosts?