Re: nsswitch.conf and openldap-server

Luca Berra <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:43:34 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:16:33PM +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
>The thing to avoid if of course a chicken-egg problem, aka pam needing to 
>authentify itself on postgres to access to table.
>
>The Frederic's situation isn't this one: it try to find the hostname (of 
>another one), not in /etc/hosts, no dns availlable (no network), try ldap, to 
>find ldap host, try /etc/hosts, not in hosts, no dns, try ldap, try to find 
>ldap host, etc... then endless loop.
>
it is very well specified in ldap.conf comments that ldap host _has_ to
be resolvable without need for LDAP

L.


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