LDAP and the dbus user

Harry Hoffman hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Fri Nov 16 21:31:59 UTC 2007


It's referenced in /etc/login.defs and the manpage for useradd

HTH,
Harry

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:52 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:
>> fre 2007-11-16 klockan 13:09 +0100 skrev Ralf Ertzinger:
>>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:17:21 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
>>>> the result is
>>>> NetworkManager needs DBus, which needs LDAP, which needs
>>>> NetworkManager.  The result?  The system freezes at the first service
>>>> in the cycle.
>>> There is a neat option I learned some time ago:
>>>
>>> nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus
>>>
>>> This (should) make ldap ignore these users (which exist locally,
>>> unless you manually removed them)
>> Oh yes... Is the correct solution here to make this the default?
> 
> Yes; actually I think the right thing is to to always look up locally
> any uid which is less than 500, because Fedora reserves those for the
> operating system.  Can't find a reference at the moment, but if someone
> does, add it to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UsersAndGroups
> 
> 




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