At some point, this started working again after a dist-upgrade, so nss_initgroups_ignoreusers is working for me.
The only thing I've done on top of that for house keeping purposes, is to modify the init script to remove the ignoreusers line on system start (the configs are controlled vi puppet, and the file will keep changing otherwise). For anyone else with a similar issue, I'm using this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #! /bin/sh -e ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: libnss-ldap # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: mountall.sh # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Updates /etc/ldap.conf # Description: Updates nss_initgroups_ignoreusers based on # nss_initgroups_minimum_uid ### END INIT INFO PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin" . /lib/lsb/init-functions case "$1" in start) log_action_begin_msg "Removing nssldap-update-ignoreusers changes" if sed -i "/^nss_initgroups_ignoreusers/d" /etc/ldap.conf ; then log_action_end_msg 0 else log_action_end_msg 1 exit 1 fi ;; restart|force-reload|stop) log_action_begin_msg "Running nssldap-update-ignoreusers" if nssldap-update-ignoreusers ; then log_action_end_msg 0 else log_action_end_msg 1 exit 1 fi ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|restart|force-reload|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024475 Title: libnss-ldap causes boot hang on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnss-ldap/+bug/1024475/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs