Re: Afg! Client won't use LDAP

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf is the config file for OpenLDAP's libldap. It has
> nothing to do with pam_ldap or nss_ldap. Any PAM or NSS-specific config
> directives here will simply be ignored. pam_ldap and nss_ldap use their own
> config file /etc/ldap.conf. It is unfortunate that they use such confusing
> file naming conventions in default installations but such is life. At Symas
> we configure pam_ldap and nss_ldap to use /opt/symas/etc/nsspam.conf instead,
> to make it more clear that it is a separate, dedicated config file. Note that
> this sort of problem is not an OpenLDAP issue; it is a pam_ldap and nss_ldap
> issue, and really doesn't belong here. It may even be a Frequently Asked
> Question, but it still doesn't belong here. Also note, if you were using
> Symas binaries, you would never face this kind of ambiguity and you would
> never have these problems.

Ah. Thank you. I actually figured that out by chance between my last 
post and yours... but I didn't understand why I needed the file in both 
places. That clears up a lot and I will add it to the system docs.

Sorry if it was too off-topic.

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