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Date:      Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:51:57 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
Cc:        vsevolod@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using [Open]LDAP for authentication
Message-ID:  <200601211452.16670.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0601192341p32673972j8f309dff1df543aa@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200601201130.18872.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <7daacbbe0601192341p32673972j8f309dff1df543aa@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 20 January 2006 18:11, Dominique Goncalves wrote:
> I've reported recently a problem with the same symptoms [1] but I use
> this order in my nsswitch.conf "files ldap".
>
> All exemples I found on internet use this order. And if I understand
> correctly, this order means, if a user is not found in files then it
> tries on ldap?

Yes, that is my understanding.

I have also found another problem with using "files ldap" - both sudo and s=
u=20
don't work. They both appear to fail to find that I am in wheel and hence=20
won't let me do anything :(

If I have "ldap files" then they work OK.

"ldap files" should work for bootup too except that nss_ldap seems to sleep=
=20
trying to reconnect to the ldap server instead of giving up quickly.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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