Unable to Start nslcd Service With Error "unknown attribute to map: 'uniqueMember'"

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Issue

nslcd fails to start and when checking its status, you see the following errors:

[root@server ~]# systemctl status nslcd
...
Apr 19 14:09:33 server systemd[1]: Starting Naming services LDAP client daemon....
Apr 19 14:09:33 server nslcd[12056]: nslcd: /etc/nslcd.conf:29: unknown attribute to map: 'uniqueMember'
Apr 19 14:09:33 server systemd[1]: nslcd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 19 14:09:33 server systemd[1]: Failed to start Naming services LDAP client daemon..
Apr 19 14:09:33 server systemd[1]: Unit nslcd.service entered failed state.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • nslcd

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