Re: Re: LDAP and sendmail

[Ben Collins <bmc@it.larc.nasa.gov>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:38:14PM +0100, Masiar Ighani wrote:
> 
> Ok, but at a certain point the operating system uses it routines to get
> information out of /etc/passwd.
> Can i take influence of this behaviour by installing nss_ldap and tell the
> OS to get its information from ldap?

That was the whole point of me saying that it would work. libnss_ldap.so
is referenced from /etc/nsswitch.conf (by adding ldap after files). This
makes libc load libnss_ldap.so and use it's routines to get the
information.

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