Thanks for the advice, Andre. Yes, the lines do say 'files ldap'. I will leave it as is.
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:52 +0200, André Welter wrote: > Hi, > > David Collins schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > I am setting up an LDAP Samba server, and have migrated all the local > > posix account info into it as well as creating the smb account info. > > > > I have now set up this server to use LDAP for authentication (rather > > than /etc/passwd, etc.) like so ... > > sudo apt-get --yes install ldap-auth-client > > sudo auth-client-config -a -p lac_ldap > > > > When testing the result with 'getent passwd', I see all the LDAP user > > accounts, but it seems the info in /etc/passwd file is also reported. > > > > Is this normal? > > > > Have a look at your /etc/nsswitch.conf. If it contains something like this: > passwd: files ldap > group: files ldap > shadow: files ldap > > (while 'files' could also read 'compat') it is indeed normal and > normally it should be left this way so you have authentication during > system startup before ldap becomes available. > > Cheers, > > Andr > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
