Thus spake Rémi Cardona on Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM CDT > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >My main issue here is the question of how such a condition can occur. I > >have USE=ldap set, and a Gentoo ebuild at some point put ldap into the > >authentication methods for passwd, shadow and group, probably because this > >flag was set when glibc was last emerged. > > I checked the ebuilds and none of 'em actually touch nsswitch.conf It's > a purely manual setup.
Hmmm. Don't know why I would have made this change manually. I've never used ldap in place of /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd or /etc/group. Ldap is a bear, and the docs are worse, and I only figured it out a year or two ago with the help of the (excellent!) LDAP System Administration book from O'Reilly. > >One of the disadvantages of Gentoo is that it follows the open source > >maxim "release early, release often" pretty literally. The choices are > >either to keep an identical non-production server around as a test bed or > >to not try to keep up2date on stuff once the system is stable. I do live > >dangerously, and reserve the right to whine about it when I get my butt > >bitten ;-) One of the advantages of Gentoo is that the dev community and > >forums are generally very helpful in solving stuff when things break. > >bugs.gentoo.org is a great resource to which I successfully turn more > >often than I would wish. > > I'll second Donnie here, VMWare is a great tool for that, I used it in > several occasions and it saved me a bundle, both in terms of time and > money (one server with plenty of RAM running 2 win2k and 2 linuxes at > the same time). It's definitely worth its price tag in the long run. When I get a spare couple of grand I'll set up a new box to do this. It's a good idea. VMware is a great tool which I use on my desktop for WinXP but I've known folks to run Linux on it. > Xen seems to be the cool new thing, and it seems to be well tested to be > put into production use. Definitely worth a look if you're on a tight > budget, or if your servers are not used to their max capacity. I'm not familiar with Xen, which Gentoo describes only as "The Xen virtual machine monitor" - terribly informative, that ;-) > >>I read someplace this was going to be fixed in later versions of > >>nss_ldap. > > > >Yeah, this bug has been outstanding for many months. I put a version cap > >in packages.mask on nss_ldap and a comment referencing the bug report. It > >looks as if Greg KH and other devs can't quite agree on where the > >responsibility lies for this one. > > Since this bug has been bothering me for quite a while too, I'll try and > see if I can fix it. I started looking through udev this morning, and it > seems really clean code-wise. I'm not really sure how to test udev > though, besides rebooting the box. I'll figure this out this weekend. That would be very cool! -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | | -- [email protected] mailing list
