I have discovered that when I build a new guest, SLES8, I have a great deal of difficulty making it an LDAP client via the command line. Even after I modify the ldap.conf, nsswitch.conf, etc. . . files I find that I am still not communicating to the ldap server. It seems in fact that the only way that I have successfully made a guest communicate to the ldap server is by going through yast ==> Network / Advanced ===> LDAP Client and activating the feature there. Rather interesting is yast is picking up my ldap.conf file as all the "blanks" are filled in. Once I select Finish my ldap client begins working.
I am of the belief that there is a file that SuSE / Yast is modifying that is completing the activation. This is a file that I believe is not known to other systems. Could someone please tell me what is going on here as I do not like to promote the use of Yast or any GUI for that matter? Thank you! Eric Sammons (804)697-3925 FRIT - Unix Systems
