LDAP and Linux compatibility

[Markus Örebrand]

While this is a fairly old thread, there may still be people looking for
the *correct* answer for this question (at least I were 10 minutes
ago...)

So, the problem is that some applications (acroread7 in this case)
refuse to start when run on a NIS or LDAP (client?), with a message
containing:

GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id

See more about the problem in previous posts in this thread.

The resolution is to edit /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf, and change

  passwd:     files
  shadow:     files
  group:      files

to:

  passwd:    db files nisplus nis
  shadow:    db files nisplus nis
  group:     db files nisplus nis

LDAP clients should also have 'ldap' after 'nis' in these rows.

By the way, editing /etc/nsswitch.conf is the way to go to set lookup
priorities for PAM in Linux. 

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