Re: [plug] Setting up LDAP Authentication

[Orlando Andico]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
..
> Also when doing an ls on an NFS-mounted /home, the uids
> don't get mapped to usernames that are already in LDAP (not in the local
> /etc/passwd, though).

Bingo. Broken name server switch.

Write a (tiny) application that uses getpwnam() to do a query. Compile and
link. do getpwnam("username that is in LDAP but not local passwd") see if
you get something back.

You prolly won't since ls(1) uses getpwuid() to display mappings.


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Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.

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