Re: [Ldap-users-questions] Adding LDAP user

[Fernando L. <fer...@lo...>]

Hi Geetha,

Besides configurion nsswitch.conf you need to configure /etc/ldap.conf 
(or something like that, check nss_ldap docs) so it knows to which LDAP 
server to connect to get user information.

[]s, Fernando Lozano

>Hello Gurus,
>I am new to LDAP .
>
>when i added a user geetha using ldapmodify command i
>got the following...
>
>adding new entry
>uid=geetha,ou=People,o=cdfd.org.in,dc=cdfd,dc=org,dc=in
>
>Now i created a home directory for user geetha and
>when i try to change uid using chown command got the
>following error..
>
>chown -R geetha geetha
>
>chown: unknown user id geetha
>
>when i checked nsswitch.conf ldap was not included and
>i included 
>
>passwd: files ldap
>
>but still getting the same error...
>if i have changed nsswitch.conf should i have to stop
>and start some process
>
>thanks in advance
>geetha
>
>
>
>
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