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Re: initgroups
On Wed, Nov 06, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> >
> >
> >nss_ldap needs to support and provide this function for ldap.
> >
> Another question:
> Wh calls who? Is it:
> - su => glibc => nscd => nss_ldap => LDAP
> or
> - su => glibc => nss_ldap => nscd => LDAP
>
> If I want to cache initgroups too, should I modify glibc, nscd or nss_ldap?
You cannot cache initgroups. Even if you would modify glibc and nscd
for it. It does not make any sense. It is much easier to dump the
group table from the LDAP server and append it to /etc/group regulary.
Thorsten
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