Re: nsswitch.conf:hosts files ldap dns

[Peter Marschall <peter.marschall@mayn.de>]

Hi,

On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:18, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> Alan Sparks wrote:
>  > I'm thinking you're putting the 'ldap' entry in the 'hosts:' line of
>  > there?  Think you should take that out.  Use LDAP for passwd, group,
>  > and shadow, not for name lookup.  Use dns for that.
> I'm having the saem problem that Mr. Canary is having - only I'm having
> it on all machines. And there is NO reason that putting ldap in the
> hosts line of nsswitch.conf should cause SEGFAULTS in nss_ldap, or cause
> it to not function properly.
>
> OpenLDAP is/should be a complete replacement for NIS/NIS+/AD/whatever
> and if I so choose to use it for hosts information, then why shouldn't I
> be able to?

OpenLDAP is a directory server, nothing more nothing less.
It does not provide means to replace NIS/NIS+/AD/...
This functionality is provided by third party modules like nss_ldap
or pam_ldap that have little / nothing to do with OpenLDAP.

Peter
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