local users when ldap is down? (was: Re: libuser's LDAP support (was Re: LDAP Performance))

[Tommy McNeely]

heh, so is that how to properly hijack a thread :)

I question whether Red Hat (or linux in general) has fixed the problem 
that I have experienced from 7.x all the way through 9 so far where if 
the "ldap server" is unreachable, not even *local* users or root can 
login. The system hangs while looking up group information appearantly? 
I have seen little hacks in my bug reports, but have any of those been 
implemented into the mainstream yet?

Dax Kelson wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 03:21, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:39, Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>>I also think that ldap (user management at least) should become
>>>standard in RHL. It is possible to run all under ldap, but the ldap
>>>management tools are missing (that's easy to fix) and the standard
>>>RH user management tool should support ldap, too.
>>>
>>>What is the status of RH tools with respect to that
>>>(redhat-config-users, useradd)? libuser was already build against ldap
>>>in RH9. Is there a chance to have more LDAP support in Cambridge?
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>>I'm currently patching/modifying "libuser" to make it fully support
>>LDAP. The latest version from RawHide works awfully: it tries to invoke
>>ldap_modify_s to perform operations like adding a user or a group
>>account, when in fact, it should use ldap_add_s.
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>>Right now, "luseradd" and "lgroupadd" are working perfectly for me.
>>There are still some rough edges I need to fix. They need some testing
>>also, I plan to release them for testing into rhl-beta-devel mailing
>>list for approval.
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>Do you have libuser whipped into shape now?
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>It would great to have functioning luser* and lgroup* utilities.
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>Do they support startTLS?
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>Dax Kelson
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