File Permissions On NIS Clients Show nobody:nobody With "name 'nobody' does not map into domain 'localdomain'" Messages In /var/log/messages File In Exalogic Environments (Doc ID 1993361.1)

Last updated on JUNE 22, 2015

Applies to:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.0.0.0 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

In Exalogic Linux environments (both physical and virtual) issue of file permissions on NIS Client vServers/Compute Nodes shown as nobody:nobody is seen with following messages in /var/log/messages file.

Restarting the NIS Clients services and remounting the NFS directories does not help. 

Cause

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