Re: dc=example,dc=com

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

Robert Canary wrote:
> After persistantly briusing my head on the desktop.......
>
> It dawned on me.  The reason I keep getting ds=example,dc=com is because
> there has to be *two* ldap.conf file, and I am _obviously_ editing the
> wrong one....and there is two. One in the /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and
> one in the /etc/ldap.conf
>
> The /etc/ldap.conf was well commented so I kept it and aslo made a
> symlink from the /etc/openldap to point to it.  Now the getent hosts
> work correctly.
>
> I don't care how they got there, or who's fault it is, I just wanted the
> archives to reflect it. That is why I am posting it :-)

/etc/ldap.conf is for nss_ldap and pam_ldap
/etc/openldap/ldap.conf is for the openldap clients.

They support _different_ options. So don't symlink 'em.


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