Re: nsswitch.conf with nss_ldap

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

2010/2/17 Dima Veselov <i%kab00m.ru@localhost>:
> Hi,
>
> I have met a problem, concerning nss_ldap usage - OpenLDAP slapd is running
> in unpriveledged mode, so at start it try to resolve '-u slapd' and catch
> itself - nss_ldap is trying to resolve, but slapd isn't yet ready. If nss_ldap
> is turned in hard mode - this situation cause server to stall forever.
> Having user slapd in /etc/passwd, I tried to use nsswitch.conf entry as 
> follows:
>
> passwd: files [success=return] ldap
>
> But it really doesn't work. What usually people do to start it easily on 
> files and continue on ldap?
>

In general you can't use nss_ldap on the ldap server itself.