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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Stef Bon <stefbon@gmail.com>
Cc: Stef Bon via Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Howto determine a shared/network source of users and groups is active?
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:54:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edw2edal.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANXojcy2iRh8Sch0njDcHmJYJDBqV_bWf4B2Z0fE1xxYKSKpxQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stef Bon's message of "Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:18:17 +0200")

* Stef Bon:

>> This seems to be something that needs FreeIPA or perhaps Kerberos
>> support, so I'd suggest to ask on those lists.
>
> That is an idea, but to begin with is there a way/tool to detect the
> sources /databases of the passwd and group in Linux? Other than
> scanning the /etc/nsswitch.conf file?
>
> So probably not.

No, I don't think so.  The LDAP integration module probably isn't even
called “ldap”.  For example, in Fedora and downstreams, it's called
“sss”.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-22 13:40 Stef Bon
2022-09-23  5:14 ` Florian Weimer
2022-09-23  7:18   ` Stef Bon
2022-09-23  7:54     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2022-10-05 17:28       ` Stef Bon

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