[Samba] Users can't login on Samba+Ldap

[Faye Gibbins]

It's normal to have /etc/passwd entries in their that you'd need if your 
ldap infrastructure died in the most horrible way.

Otherwise a small ldap problem can brick a machine.

Faye

dogbert at infinito.it wrote:
> sorry... forgot to crosspost answer to the list:
> 
> I'm checking /etc/ldap.conf and it seems that at the end of this file it was
> added a line with the following directive:
> nss_initgroups_ignoreusers
> 
> that included more or less every single entry contained in my /etc/passwd
> file at the time of the ldap configuration.
> 
> is that normal behaviour ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Riccardo



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