S S writes:
>We are hoping to use the Open-LDAP client in our SLES9 system to allow users
>who are defined in our non-Linux LDAP server to signon without being defined
>as local users.
>
>We have no problem authenticating passwords for users via LDAP for users
>that are defined as both local users and that are also in LDAP. But when we
>try to sign on a user that is in LDAP, but is not defined locally, we see
>the following error in /var/log/messages:
...
I'm not sure that this is the only problem, but your /etc/nsswitch.conf
file has this:
>passwd: compat
>group: compat
IIRC, the "compat" keyword handles some special cases with NIS, and doesn't
do LDAP at all. I have mine set to "files ldap" and it works, so give that
a try.
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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