From: Tony Earnshaw (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 19:29:29 EDT
fre, 02.09.2005 kl. 21.54 skrev Victor Duchovni:
[...]
> > > No, not via unix:passwd.byname... This just calls getpwnam() which
> > > calls the nsswitch code, which is broken in most (all?) distributions.
> >
> > Hmmm ... on my RHAS rigs it calls the ns libraries, which in turn call
> > LDAP for non-local UIDs (configured in nsswitch.conf).
> >
> > That the - LDAP at least - libraries are broken on most distros is ably
> > demonstrated by Padl's Luke Howard's "get up and jump" act on the Padl
> > MLs. He's way ahead of any of them and constantly update(grade)ing.
> > Certainly wrt RH :(
> >
>
> No the LDAP libraries are not the problem here, the real issue is that
> the nss_mumble (nis, ldap, ...) modules are broken, they reports soft
> failures (timeouts, ...) as hard "not-found" errors.
Padl (Mostly Luke Howard) designed and implements the ns_ldap libraries.
Which is what I meant. Or, since they call basic ns libraries, do you
mean that the LDAP implementation goes even deeper? (Into the underlying
ns libraries ...)
Nonetheless, Red Hat's updates are nihil from version to RH version;
only does so-called bug fixes), and updating using source code (with or
without RPMs) can break more recent systems - which I've experienced.
So what does all this do to help OP?
--Tonni
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