FC5 LDAP issues

I've noticed that the behavior of my FC5 system differs dramatically depending on whether nscd is running. User info is stored in LDAP, and if nscd is running then applications talk to it. But if it's not running then the applications (or libc, at least) talk to the network themselves. This gets denied by selinux and things break. Most notably, the system won't even boot, because dbus just hangs forever spewing AVC messages to the console. So I wonder if the intention is to make nscd mandatory, or if failures due to a lack of nscd are considered problematic. I have nothing against nscd, but I don't generally turn it on until after the system boots and has time to pull down configuration information so that encrypted ldap works. Obviously I'll be reworking my installation scripts to work around this. - J<