2010/2/2 Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com>: > Perhaps some of you have gone down this path before and can offer some > helpful suggestions. ?I need to convert a group of servers to LDAP > authentication. ?Most of the user accounts on these systems have > consistent uids and gids across all the servers. ?There are a few > exceptions but the people who need to access the servers on a daily > basis should all have the same account uid on every machine. > > My questions are: > > 1. ?Can you disable local authentication for all users except root > once LDAP authentication is in place? > dont create any "root" user on LDAP and... > 2. ?If there are some users who only need access to a small number of > servers, how would you handle that situation? > modify /etc/security/limits.conf to your needs > 3. ?When adding new users, do you create them a private group to avoid > this error? i always create users in a default generic group, but that has nothing to do with your error. > id: cannot find name for group ID 5001 > you probably have nsswitch.conf missconfigured. regards, muzzol -- ======================== ^ ^ O O (_ _) muzzol(a)muzzol.com ======================== jabber id: muzzol(a)jabber.dk ======================== No atribueixis qualitats humanes als ordinadors. No els hi agrada. ======================== "El gobierno espa?ol s?lo habla con terroristas, homosexuales y catalanes, a ver cuando se decide a hablar con gente normal" Jim?nez Losantos ======================== <echelon spamming> bomb terrorism bush aznar teletubbies </echelon spamming>