Using [Open]LDAP for authentication

[Daniel O'Connor]

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 su 
don't work. They both appear to fail to find that I am in wheel and hence 
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 
trying to reconnect to the ldap server instead of giving up quickly.

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