Antw: Re: Service that runs with network credentials

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 05.12.2019 um 10:37
in
Nachricht <20191205093742.GB10317@gardel-login>:
> On Mi, 04.12.19 23:18, Kenneth Porter (shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
>> What's the best practice for defining a service that might require network
>> credentials to run? Are there example unit files that do this? How does
one
>> set up the dependencies to access an LDAP or Active Directory server, for
>> example?
> 
> I am not sure what "network credentials" is supposed to mean, but the

I guess it's about "secret credentials", i.e. where to store "secrets".

> assumption is that network user/group naming services such as
> LDAP/NIS/AD/… are set up properly as soon as nss-user-lookup.target is
> reached. i.e. such infrastructure should be ordered before it so that
> services requiring users/groups from this source to be resolvable can
> be ordered after it.
> 
> This means, system services that need such users cannot run in early
> boot, but only in late boot, with that target acting as boundary to
> the front.
> 
> Lennart
> 
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