nsswitch.conf man page

pete wright nomadlogic at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 19:36:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:44 AM,  <sgmayo at mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us> wrote:
> I don't see anything in the man page about adding ldap into the
> nsswitch.conf file.  Is that something that I can do so that I can get
> applications to use my openldap?

oh that's odd - never noticed that :)

>
> I would assume I could add something to the affect of:
>
> passwd files ldap
> group files ldap
>

yep that's about it, here is what i use for ldap auth on some
workstations that hit an openldap cluster.

passwd: files   ldap
shadow: files   ldap
group:  files   ldap


-pete

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