On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 03:08:20PM -0800, David Walser wrote:

[...]
> > Ok... if you do an strace on ssh, and then search
> > the output, you'll
> > see something like this:
> > 
> > open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)  = 3
> > ... (much repeated, my strace shows 6 similar calls)
> > 
> > So ssh, the client, is looking at the file directly,
> > and not using NSS
> > or getent or any other similar mechanism that would
> > allow it to
> > retrieve that data from LDAP.
> > 
> > This is a limitation of openssh, and not something
> > that we can fix...
> > you'll have to bring this up with the openssh
> > developers.
> 
> Strange, how does one reproduce the problem exactly? 
> I have a user that's only in LDAP and I can ssh to
> them just fine.

Sorry for the misinformation... see my followup to this.

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