[Samba] RID idmap backend: difficulties looking up a user by its uid

Dale Schroeder dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com
Wed Aug 12 11:29:51 MDT 2009


I believe smb.conf line should be
    idmap backend = rid:DOMAIN=100000-10000000

Dale


Jakob Ahlin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem using the RID idmap backend with Winbind. Having 
> configured NSS with the Winbind module, I can use "getent passwd" to 
> look up a user by its username, but not by its uidnumber. However, if 
> I first do a lookup using the username or run wbinfo on the user 
> (specifying either the username or uid), and then try "getent passwd" 
> with the uidnumber, I get the correct result.
>
> See here:
> debianrid:~# getent passwd 161907
> debianrid:~# wbinfo --uid-info 161907
> lokr:*:161907:100513:Lovisa Kristiansson (lokr):/home/WBLABB/lokr:/bin/sh
> debianrid:~# getent passwd 161907
> lokr:*:161907:100513:Lovisa Kristiansson (lokr):/home/WBLABB/lokr:/bin/sh
> debianrid:~#
>
> Related smb.conf lines:
>   idmap backend = rid
>   idmap uid = 100000-10000000
>   idmap gid = 100000-10000000
>   winbind use default domain = yes
>   winbind enum groups = yes
>   winbind enum users = yes
>
> Version information:
>   Version 3.3.7-SerNet-Debian
>
> From log.winbindd-idmap:
> [2009/08/12 10:13:58,  0] lib/module.c:do_smb_load_module(69)
>  Module '/usr/lib/samba/idmap/rid.so' initialization failed: 
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION
> [2009/08/12 10:13:58,  1] winbindd/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(580)
>  could not find idmap alloc module rid
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Jakob
>


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