SSS_RPCIDMAPD(5)

✨ SSS_RPCIDMAPD ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for sss_rpcidmapd — that's the sss plugin configuration directives for rpc.idmapd. yeah. we're doing NFSv4 name mapping today and honestly? it's giving underrated. 💅

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📂 CONFIGURATION FILE

so the rpc.idmapd configuration file is usually found at /etc/idmapd.conf. like, that's its home. its little apartment. 🏠

for more info, go read idmapd.conf(5) — she's the main character of that particular story.

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🦋 SSS CONFIGURATION EXTENSION

🌸 Enable SSS plugin

in the section “[Translation]”, you're gonna modify/set the “Method” attribute so it contains sss. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. ✨

💜 [sss] config section

so, if you wanna change the default of one of the configuration attributes of the sss plugin listed down below (and there's literally one, so, lowkey easy), you're gonna need to create a config section for it, named “[sss]”. slay.

Configuration attributes

• memcache (bool) — says whether or not to use the memcache optimisation technique. true or false, bestie, pick your fighter. 🎀
  • Default: True

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🔥 SSSD INTEGRATION

the sss plugin requires the NSS Responder to be enabled in sssd. no NSS Responder, no plugin. it's giving codependent, but make it infrastructure. 💀

also, the attribute “use_fully_qualified_names” must be enabled on all domains — because NFSv4 clients expect a fully qualified name to be sent on the wire. they're picky like that. 🙈

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🌈 EXAMPLE

here's a minimal idmapd.conf that makes use of the sss plugin. copy it, love it, ship it:

[General]
Verbosity = 2
# domain must be synced between NFSv4 server and clients
# Solaris/Illumos/AIX use "localdomain" as default!
Domain = default

[Mapping]
Nobody-User = nfsnobody
Nobody-Group = nfsnobody

[Translation]
Method = sss

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👀 SEE ALSO

• sssd(8)
• idmapd.conf(5)

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👑 AUTHORS

• Noam Meltzer
  • Primary Data Inc.
    • Developer (2013-2014)
• Noam Meltzer <tsnoam@gmail.com>
  • Developer (2014-)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was the sss rpc.idmapd plugin page, dated 07/08/2026, from the SSS_RPCIDMAPD(5) era of File Formats and Conventions. go forth and map those IDs, you absolute icon 💖✨