On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: > This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as > for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root > credentials possibly be leaked accross the network. On the other hand > you don't want or need user accounts in the local files. > > Default first check local files which is fast, then fall back on ldap > if the user is not found. Actually I wrote them the wrong way, how odd! I actually have.. group: cache ldap files passwd: cache ldap files I think that if it fails ldap, it does so very quickly - it certainly did this morning when I rebooted uncleanly. I believe I did try it as "cache files ldap" but I had some issues, I can't recall what they were though. I had quite a bit of difficulty getting it to work acceptably so when it did I left it alone :) On a related note, why is slapd so damn fragile? It's a righteous pain in the bum the way you have to run db_recover-X.Y /var/db/openldap-data if slapd fails to start. It wouldn't be so bad if it logged anything, but even with full logging it gives a very cryptic message and if you have logging disabled (which is recommended for performance!) it won't say _anything_. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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