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Thus spake Rémi Cardona on Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM CDT |
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> Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> >My main issue here is the question of how such a condition can occur. I |
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> >have USE=ldap set, and a Gentoo ebuild at some point put ldap into the |
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> >authentication methods for passwd, shadow and group, probably because this |
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> >flag was set when glibc was last emerged. |
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> I checked the ebuilds and none of 'em actually touch nsswitch.conf It's |
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> a purely manual setup. |
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Hmmm. Don't know why I would have made this change manually. I've never |
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used ldap in place of /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd or /etc/group. Ldap is a |
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bear, and the docs are worse, and I only figured it out a year or two ago |
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with the help of the (excellent!) LDAP System Administration book from |
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O'Reilly. |
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> >One of the disadvantages of Gentoo is that it follows the open source |
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> >maxim "release early, release often" pretty literally. The choices are |
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> >either to keep an identical non-production server around as a test bed or |
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> >to not try to keep up2date on stuff once the system is stable. I do live |
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> >dangerously, and reserve the right to whine about it when I get my butt |
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> >bitten ;-) One of the advantages of Gentoo is that the dev community and |
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> >forums are generally very helpful in solving stuff when things break. |
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> >bugs.gentoo.org is a great resource to which I successfully turn more |
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> >often than I would wish. |
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> I'll second Donnie here, VMWare is a great tool for that, I used it in |
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> several occasions and it saved me a bundle, both in terms of time and |
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> money (one server with plenty of RAM running 2 win2k and 2 linuxes at |
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> the same time). It's definitely worth its price tag in the long run. |
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When I get a spare couple of grand I'll set up a new box to do this. It's a |
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good idea. VMware is a great tool which I use on my desktop for WinXP but |
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I've known folks to run Linux on it. |
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> Xen seems to be the cool new thing, and it seems to be well tested to be |
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> put into production use. Definitely worth a look if you're on a tight |
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> budget, or if your servers are not used to their max capacity. |
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I'm not familiar with Xen, which Gentoo describes only as "The Xen virtual |
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machine monitor" - terribly informative, that ;-) |
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> >>I read someplace this was going to be fixed in later versions of |
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> >>nss_ldap. |
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> >Yeah, this bug has been outstanding for many months. I put a version cap |
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> >in packages.mask on nss_ldap and a comment referencing the bug report. It |
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> >looks as if Greg KH and other devs can't quite agree on where the |
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> >responsibility lies for this one. |
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> Since this bug has been bothering me for quite a while too, I'll try and |
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> see if I can fix it. I started looking through udev this morning, and it |
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> seems really clean code-wise. I'm not really sure how to test udev |
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> though, besides rebooting the box. I'll figure this out this weekend. |
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That would be very cool! |
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