Re: Ldap users "not seen" by application

[Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>]

On 02/20/12 15:49 +0100, teoman.onay@degroof.be wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope i'm in the right place to ask my question... I use openldap for
> user authentication on linux servers. Everything seems ok except for
> scheduled jobs. We use a software to launch processes based on event or
> schedule. An agent is installed on every servers. Unfortunately it doesn't
> "see" the users from the ldap. When it tries to launch the process it
> fails with an error like the user doesn't exists. The workaround is to
> create a local user but i'd prefer to use an ldap one. Do you know how i
> could solve that ?

Topics to read up on would include PAM, Name Service Switch (NSS), and
the getent(1) manpage (getent passwd <user>).

It sounds like you have an ldap PAM module configured, but no ldap NSS
module, of which you have several options. OpenLDAP maintains one such
piece of software called nssov, which is located in the
contrib/slapd-modules/ directory within the source.

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Dan White