I wonder why ldap isnt used instead of NIS for a userbase that large?
On 4/23/08, Brian Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/ > -- > Brian Long | | > . | | | . | | | . > ' ' > C I S C O > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > rhelv5-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >
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