Richard Megginson wrote: > Del wrote: >> >>> What user and group is the server running as? Does it have to make >>> an nss_ldap call to get these user IDs? If so, then this is likely >>> the problem. >> >> It's definitely nss_ldap related, though. If I remove the ldap lines >> from /etc/nsswitch.conf then I don't get the problem (although the >> machine then becomes unusable because the LDAP accounts are not >> present). >> > This is a good question - Does anyone run Fedora DS on a machine that > uses nss_ldap for uid/password lookup? If so, how do you keep your > server uid lookups from hitting nss_ldap? I do this on many other machines, and normally I just make sure that the server uid and gid are in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. That is normally sufficient, however in this one instance it appears not to be. -- Del Babel Com Australia http://www.babel.com.au/ ph: 02 9368 0728 fax: 02 9368 0758