Sorry for leaving out specifics.

 

$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)

 

$ sssd –version

1.8.0

 

The problem is that, during boot, udev is not correctly executing a rule to set user/group ownership, where the target user and group are maintained (exclusively) in LDAP.  If, after boot, I re-execute start_udev, all works as expected.