Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:42:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x, LDAP and caching uid/gid data Message-ID: <20050608164118.G23444@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <5EE9BD2D-25F2-40C1-A166-2359C9C11788@mac.com> References: <v0310280cbeccdb8867d8@[192.168.11.10]> <5EE9BD2D-25F2-40C1-A166-2359C9C11788@mac.com>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Ben Hockenhull wrote: >> There's no user information on the local system at all, so every operation >> that requires UID/GID information had to do an LDAP lookup to get UID/GID >> data. So, for example, every piece of mail delivered means an LDAP lookup. >> Ick. > > You really want to leave the standard system UIDs and GIDs in place, and use > LDAP (or NIS, etc) to augment them with the additional information about > network-wide users and groups. > >> Is there such a thing as nscd for FreeBSD, and if so, has anyone had >> experience using it? I found a lookupd utility that looks promising, but >> I'm leery of implementing it in production as it seems like fairly untested >> software. > > lookupd has been around for close to fifteen years, and has been used with > large user/group databases (50,000+ users). More to the point, the PADL > stuff ought to play nicely with lookupd, since PADL came from the NEXTSTEP > and now MacOS X community where lookupd originated. > > I am not sure that lookupd has been used or tested or shaken down as much > with FreeBSD, so the integration with PAM may not be as mature as it's usage > with the nss_ mechanism. > > However, if you really want nscd, I'd imagine that you ought to be able to > hunt that down from Sun now that the source code for Solaris 10 is openly > available...? > > -- > -Chuck What about caching, as he asked originally? If a laptop user "walks away" from the network where the LDAP or NIS server is located, will it cache auth info so the user can still get in?
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