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Re: 5.x, LDAP and caching uid/gid data

At 1:24 PM -0500 6/8/05, Tony Shadwick wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ben Hockenhull wrote: We're in the midst of implementing a couple of FreeBSD servers, each containing about 5k users, with authentication against LDAP. We're using PADL's nss_ldap and pam_ldap modules, and while things work

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