On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:04:32AM +0100, Florian G. Pflug <fgp@xxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 114 lines which said: > Might it be that the postgres user is not allowed to read > /etc/ldap.conf - or however your nss_ldap config file is called? myriam:~ % ls -ld /etc/*ldap* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 17:17 /etc/ldap -rw------- 1 root root 13 Oct 18 17:19 /etc/ldap.secret -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8442 Oct 18 17:27 /etc/libnss-ldap.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7070 Oct 18 17:19 /etc/pam_ldap.conf > I'd try su-ing to the postgres user, and check if everything (ls -l > /home, ... - you get the idea) works as expected. It does: myriam:~ % id uid=104(postgres) gid=108(postgres) groups=108(postgres) myriam:~ % ls -l /home/bortzmeyer total 68 drwxr-sr-x 3 bortzmeyer staff 4096 Nov 19 11:47 AFGNIC While "bortzmeyer" is not on /etc/passwd, only in LDAP. So, we still have a mystery :-( ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx