passwd_compat: ldap

[Marc Schmitt <schmitt@inf.ethz.ch>]

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right list to post my problem...

Did anyone ever try to get passwd_compat working with LDAP under Linux 
(in particular RedHat 7.3)?

When I have

passwd:     files ldap

in /etc/nsswitch.conf

then

getent passwd

returns the users in /etc/passwd and those in LDAP, as expected.

Then I tried

passwd:         compat
passwd_compat:  ldap

and appended

+someuser

(someuser exists in LDAP) in /etc/passwd.

Then

getent passwd

returns the users in /etc/passwd except someuser, as expected.

So far, so good. But

id -a someuser

returns

id: someuser: No such user


According to the man page of nsswitch.conf:

By default, the source is `nis', but this may be overriden by specifying 
`nisplus' as source for the  pseudo-databases  passwd_compat, 
group_compat and shadow_compat.  This pseudo-databases are only 
available in GNU C Library.

Obviously, there is no pseudo-database support for LDAP under Linux... 
or am I doing something wrong?

TIA

Regards,
	Marc