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Problems with finger

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Problems with finger
From: Jonathan Keeling <jmjk2-openldap@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 01:14:28 +0100
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I'm attempting to replace NIS by a combination of LDAP and Kerberos, but
have been having some problems with finger.  Although most commands using
getpwent succeed (i.e. ls reports the correct usernames for uids, and
whoami is correct), finger fails for some users. 

This turned out to be because finger appears (from running strace) to
just be getting the entries for all users, and filtering them itself,
and so the sizelimit of 500 caused some users not to appear.  Changing
sizelimit on the server cures these symptoms, but it seems to me
to be wrong that finger causes such a large number of queries.

Does anyone have any experience of why this occurs, and/or how to make
finger behave more sensibly?

Yours,
Jonathan
-- 
Jonathan.Keeling@physics.org	http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~jmjk2

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