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libnss-ldap package

  1. Bug #1024475
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1024475

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Giuseppe Attardi (attardi-h) wrote : Re: libnss-ldap causes boot hang on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

I had a similar problem after an release upgrade from 12.04.3 to 14.04.1.

After the upgrade, only local users could log in and any command was very slooow.
In particular commands like add-user or add-group would never finish.

Removing mentions of ldap in nsswitch.conf seemed to solve the problem.

In the end I discovered that the apparent cause was removing this line from nsswitch:

passwd_compat: ldap

and using instead

passwd: compat ldap

After this change, everything worked normally.