User and group of files under NFSv4 mount points list as "nobody:nobody" though the correct configuration of NIS has been successfully validated (Doc ID 1617187.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 29, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.3.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You are using an Exalogic Physical or Virtual Environment where you have successfully configured and validated the expected behavior of the Name Information Service (NIS) and have configured and mounted a share from the ZFS Storage Appliance (ZFS) as a Network File System Version 4 (NFSv4).

When you create files under a local directory, the files show with the user id and group id of the current user, as shown below:

 

Changes

You may have recently configured the system to utilize NIS and NFSv4 for the first time or recently made configured configuration changes to the NIS or NFS services on the ZFS Storage Appliance.

Cause

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