Hi Ashley, Thanks for your docs, but how about directory listing? when root log in and doing command "ls -al" on home folder is showing user name, group and folder. But only user name is show correctly but the group is only gid. ---- drwxr-xr-x 4 JWilliam 10001 4096 Jun 4 14:56 JWilliam --- Regards, Diwa On 6/13/07, ashley <ashley at csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > > Normal users don't have the necessary permissions to do the lookup on > LDAP. > > The authentication process is done usally by root then when you are logged > in you can't do lookups. > > I've documented this here > > http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/fedora-ds-26072006.html > > In Section 3.3 Binding Linux/Unix Machines to LDAPs > > (way at the bottom) > > Short story is turn on NSCD, this service binds as root but caches the > information for the local user. Usually information you should cache is > passwd, group and aliases information which you have to edit > /etc/nscd.conf > > You might want to check this out for NSCD > > http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~ashley/fedora-ds/Fedora%20Miscellaneous%20Problems-23082006.htm > > Regards Ashley >
