system-config-users and ldapi

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Apr 18 13:09:01 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:03 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Can system-config-users be made to use ldapi (i.e., a socket connection
> to an LDAP server)?
> 
> According to "man 5 libuser.conf", libuser can do this; but I haven't
> been able to convince system-config-users.  It asks for a SASL user on
> startup (which shouldn't be applicable, as I understand it).
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I was under the impression that system-config-users would write directly
to /etc/passwd (/etc/shadow, /etc/group) and would not be applicable for
use with ldap based users.

BTW, I tend to use Webmin and it's LDAP Users and Groups module to
manage LDAP users & groups.

Craig



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