Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:10:58 +0200 From: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User Accounts across multiple machines Message-ID: <20040722191058.GA63949@ensign.laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <20040722144657.0000ac03.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <1090519611.584.1.camel@mgl.magellanhealth.com> <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200407221337.27867.kirk@strauser.com> <20040722144657.0000ac03.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:46:57PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines? It's been a while > since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names. This would still be a problem, because there is no support for nss_ldap in FreeBSD 4.x. To get LDAP working with 4.x, you would need a workaround that translates user information into NIS or something that creates user-entries in the local passwd file. Support for nss_ldap/nsswitch.conf is available in FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE or newer. cu, Uwe
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