Hi, All. Any suggestions/leads?: On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:25 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > Hi, All. > > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 00:03 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > > I recently set up fedora-ds and managed to configure several FC5 > > machines to authenticate and get user information from the LDAP server. > > Unfortunately, the laptop isn't always connected to the network so when > > it boots up, the process hangs when it tries to start the "message bus". > > I figure the process blocks when it tries to change UID to that of the > > dbus user. When the machine isn't connected to the network (ie. no cable > > and wireless isn't available), the process just hangs. > > > > Any suggestions on fixing this? > > So I've implemented one fix. For some reason, even > with /etc/nsswitch.conf configured as follows, FC5 systems still go to > LDAP even if a user exists locally (dbus user exists in /etc/passwd): > > /etc/nsswitch.conf: > ... > passwd: files ldap > shadow: files ldap > group: files ldap > ... > > > So the solution I applied was to edit /etc/ldap.conf and added the entry > "bind_policy hard". This is supposed to make nss_ldap exit after failing > a connection attempt (instead of the default infinite retries). > > My problem now is that none of my DS users can log on to the > newly-started machine. I thought that's what the "Cache User > Information" option in system-config-authentication -> Account > Information does, but it apparently doesn't. Is there a way to cache > LDAP Authentication and Account information so that offline machines > will allow logons from LDAP users? Kind of like how WinXP does?
