It's certainly worth a look. I've needed to dig into those settings for
a while now anyway to fix the delay imposed by NSS when the LDAP server is
unavailable. Waiting over a minute to log in is just painful. Thanks for the
suggestion.
Tom
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008 Aug 30, at 15:11, Tom Cocagne wrote:
>
> Hmmm. That sounds reasonable. Any idea what settings I might want to
> look at? So far I've left all the nss-ldap stuff on the default settings
> Gentoo provides (minus adding ldap to the nsswitch.conf, of course).
>
>
> Not really. We have yet to get anywhere near being able to deploy LDAP,
> nor do I have any Gentoo experience --- but if the permissions work while
> the displayed usernames are wrong, that pretty much fingers the username
> lookup via the NSS. You probably need someone with Gentoo LDAP experience
> at this point.
>
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> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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