Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:53:50 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_=D6rebrand?= <Markus.Orebrand@operax.com> To: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: LDAP and Linux compatibility Message-ID: <33656995C5C5094A983DE84DA649A9244A0046@lulex02.ad.operax.com>
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While this is a fairly old thread, there may still be people looking for the *correct* answer for this question (at least I were 10 minutes ago...) So, the problem is that some applications (acroread7 in this case) refuse to start when run on a NIS or LDAP (client?), with a message containing: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id See more about the problem in previous posts in this thread. The resolution is to edit /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf, and change passwd: files shadow: files group: files to: passwd: db files nisplus nis shadow: db files nisplus nis group: db files nisplus nis LDAP clients should also have 'ldap' after 'nis' in these rows. By the way, editing /etc/nsswitch.conf is the way to go to set lookup priorities for PAM in Linux.=20 -- Markus =D6rebrand Markus.Orebrand@operax.com Systems Administrator Operax - Guaranteed QoS
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