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NFS Access denied because LDAP server is not providing group list

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS
  • LDAP

Issue

  • NFS client user gets Access denied when attempting to access files on a Unix security-style volume
  • User is a member of a group that has access to the files
  • getxxbyy getgrlist intermittently only displays the user's Primary GID, with no Auxiliary GIDs 
    • ::*> vserver services name-service getxxbyyy getgrlist  -node node-1 -vserver svm1-username user1 -show-source true
Source used for lookup: Unknown
pw_name: user1
Groups: 111 111
  • Packet trace between ONTAP and LDAP server during getgrlist shows that
    • ONTAP sends the LDAP server a request for the list of groups that the user is a member of
    • The LDAP server's reply is empty

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