[Fedora-directory-users] Fedora 7 and FDS 1.0.4-FC6

[Patrick Morris]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Del wrote:

> Richard Megginson wrote:
> >Del wrote:
> >>
> >>>What user and group is the server running as?  Does it have to make 
> >>>an nss_ldap call to get these user IDs?  If so, then this is likely 
> >>>the problem.
> >>
> >>It's definitely nss_ldap related, though.  If I remove the ldap lines
> >>from /etc/nsswitch.conf then I don't get the problem (although the
> >>machine then becomes unusable because the LDAP accounts are not
> >>present).
> >>
> >This is a good question - Does anyone run Fedora DS on a machine that 
> >uses nss_ldap for uid/password lookup?  If so, how do you keep your 
> >server uid lookups from hitting nss_ldap?
> 
> I do this on many other machines, and normally I just make sure that
> the server uid and gid are in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.  That is
> normally sufficient, however in this one instance it appears not to
> be.

That should work fine, assuming "files" is listed before "ldap" in
nsswitch.conf.