Re: [webmin-l] LDAP Users and Groups - Problem adding new users

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 23/Nov/2005 20:18 Murray Trainer wrote ..
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> The module itself works fine when I add a new LDAP user but the script
> it runs to configure the new user's Linux account after the user is
> created, broke a few days ago.  I am not aware of anything being changed
> so I'm not sure what caused this problem.  The shell script does an "su
> - $USERADMIN_USER" to become the new user to run gconftool2 and other
> things.  For some reason I started getting an error that the new user
> I'm su'ing doesn't exist.  It appears to be something to do with the
> name service cache daemon nscd.  I have hacked my script to restart nscd
> from my script before I su to the new user - that fixes the problem for
> now.  As a proper fix, shouldn't the webmin LDAP Users module do a flush
> of the NSCD cache whenever it adds or removes users to make sure
> everything is immediately in sync?

Actually, this should already happen.. If there is an nscd process running,
it gets signalled to reload the cache with a HUP signal after a user is created.
What command are you using to restart nscd?

 - Jamie