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? -- Richi Plana <richip at richip.dhs.org>
