Re: [Auth] "ident" method and LDAP user accounts - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:04:32AM +0100,
 Florian G. Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> wrote
 a message of 114 lines which said:

> Might it be that the postgres user is not allowed to read
> /etc/ldap.conf - or however your nss_ldap config file is called?

myriam:~ % ls -ld /etc/*ldap*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 18 17:17 /etc/ldap
-rw-------  1 root root   13 Oct 18 17:19 /etc/ldap.secret
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8442 Oct 18 17:27 /etc/libnss-ldap.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 7070 Oct 18 17:19 /etc/pam_ldap.conf

> I'd try su-ing to the postgres user, and check if everything (ls -l
> /home, ... - you get the idea) works as expected.

It does:
myriam:~ % id
uid=104(postgres) gid=108(postgres) groups=108(postgres)

myriam:~ % ls -l /home/bortzmeyer
total 68
drwxr-sr-x   3 bortzmeyer staff 4096 Nov 19 11:47 AFGNIC

While "bortzmeyer" is not on /etc/passwd, only in LDAP.

So, we still have a mystery :-(