On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Del wrote:
Richard Megginson wrote:
>Del wrote:
>>
>>>What user and group is the server running as? Does it have to make
>>>an nss_ldap call to get these user IDs? If so, then this is likely
>>>the problem.
>>
>>It's definitely nss_ldap related, though. If I remove the ldap lines
>>from /etc/nsswitch.conf then I don't get the problem (although the
>>machine then becomes unusable because the LDAP accounts are not
>>present).
>>
>This is a good question - Does anyone run Fedora DS on a machine that
>uses nss_ldap for uid/password lookup? If so, how do you keep your
>server uid lookups from hitting nss_ldap?
I do this on many other machines, and normally I just make sure that
the server uid and gid are in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. That is
normally sufficient, however in this one instance it appears not to
be.
That should work fine, assuming "files" is listed before "ldap" in
nsswitch.conf.