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Cannot resolve UID to username because wrong LDAP schema is being used

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS
  • LDAP

Issue

  • ONTAP cannot resolve Unix user's UID into username
  • ::*> getxxbyyy getpwbyuid -node node-01 -vserver svm1 -userID 4709
  (vserver services name-service getxxbyyy getpwbyuid)
  Error: command failed: Failed to resolve 4709. Reason: Entry not found for "userid: 4709".

  • ::*> vserver services access-check authentication translate -vserver svm1 -node node-01 -uid 4709

Vserver: svm1 (internal ID: 3)

Error: Acquire UNIX credentials procedure failed
[ 2 ms] Using a cached connection to ldaps.contoso.com
**[ 4] FAILURE: User ID '4709' not found in UNIX authorization
** source LDAP.
[ 4] Failed to get user info for id '4709'
[ 4] Entry for user-id: 4709 not found in the current source:
LDAP. Ignoring and trying next available source
[ 5] Entry for user-id: 4709 not found in the current source:
FILES. Entry for user-id: 4709 not found in any of the
available sources
[ 6] Unable to retrieve UNIX username for UID 4709

Error: command failed: Failed to resolve User ID '4709' to a user name. Reason: "SecD Error: object not found".

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