On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:45 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> fwiw I have an outstanding (since fc6 but I've verified it in CentOS5)
> concerning using authconfig in kickstart, and then adding users in %post.
>
> ldap isn't running, and it takes about 15 minutes per user. Originally I
> wrote it off as hung, but lately I've been starting a ks install then
> going on with other stuff. I'm a lot more patient then:-)
John,
Have you tried luseradd instead of useradd? In our environment even
with NIS running properly, useradd would take 45-60 minutes per user
because of the way glibc queries NIS (we have tens of thousands of users
in NIS). luseradd works well, but then we had to fix all the apps which
call useradd during installation (i.e. apache). In the end, we renamed
useradd to useradd.real and /usr/sbin/useradd was a wrapper around
luseradd. It's a horrible hack, but it's required in our environment.
Come to think of it, I don't understand why Apache and other RPMs which
require local users don't call luseradd and I don't believe we ever
escalated it to Red Hat Engineering to figure out their reasoning.
/Brian/
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