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  1. Bug #53922
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 53922

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Wouter Verhelst (wouter-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 53922] Re: pam_ldap and gdm have issues

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:16:53PM -0000, Nick Chalk wrote:
> I've been experiencing the same problem, with Ubuntu and XUbuntu 6.06.1.
>
> The server is Debian Sarge, with a stable, working OpenLDAP
> installation, using TLS.
>
> I've come across a work-around, though. If /etc/nsswitch.conf is set up
> with the entries like this...
>
> passwd: files ldap
> group: files ldap
> shadow: files ldap
>
> ...then you can log in. The other way round (ldap files) hangs.

That may work; however, it means that one can no longer override data in
files with data that is published in LDAP. This is not what I want.

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