Re: Cannot find 2 particular users

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:26:06 Stelios A. wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm going mad with this problem.
> Suddenly and without doing any modification 2 particular users cannot
> bind on slave ldap.
>
> Example:
>
> root@slaveldap:~# id user1
> id: psamara: No such user
>
> root@slaveldap:~# id user2
> id: idanias: No such user
>
> root@slaveldap:~# id stelios
> uid=1000(stelios) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
> root@slaveldap:~#
>
> The above commands run fine on the master ldap server. Doing a search
> on slaveldap finds both user1 and user2.

As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with OpenLDAP, but rather 
nss_ldap and/or nscd.

You don't provide many details on your environment.

Are you running nscd on the slaveldap server? Does 'nscd -i passwd' help ? 
Does stopping nscd help ?

Regards,
Buchan