On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:

> Peter Ross wrote:
>
>> My best slowdown under Linux (back under CentOS 5.x) was using LDAP
>> in /etc/nsswitch with files as fallback.
>
> Bind softly instead of hard.  Caveats are same as NFS soft vs. hard
> binding.  And yeah, files should probably be first.

The task I was given included: unify admin access to the boxes using a 
directory service.

If you have local files in nsswitch.conf first, it looks for admin 
passwords there first.. So it defeats the purpose.

I abandoned the whole idea and went for ssh keys instead, I think.

Regards
Peter
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