Using [Open]LDAP for authentication

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 15:44, Andrew Zenk wrote:
> My guess is that you have a group (wheel) defined in /etc/group that
> is conflisting with the one in ldap.  I've had this issue before.  I
> solved it by deleteing the offending group from the group file.
> Another solution would be to tell sudo to look for a different group
> and make sure the LDAP group is unique.

Yeah, I worked around it by adding the few sudo/su users to the group file.

I am surprised that this is necessary though - I would expect nss to look 
through all resources and merge group entries.

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