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On 24/03/2011 16:28, George Mamalakis wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> In short:
>
> nsswitch seems not to honor (fully) the criteria and actions of 
> nsswitch.conf. A detailed analysis of my problem can be found on this 
> thread (it's on freebsd forums, and it hasn't been answered yet):
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22716
>
> Thank you all for your time and help in advance,
>
> I hope that somebody will help me realize how nsswitch works, so as to 
> see if and how caching may help me on an nss_ldap authenticated 
> configuration,
>
> regards,
>
> mamalos
>

Anybody having an idea on what might be wrong with the nsswitch mechanism?

Have I used the wrong mailing list? Should I have used freebsd-questions 
instead?

Thank you all for your time in advance.

mamalos

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George Mamalakis

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