[Starlingx-discuss] Is LDAP required?

[Andy Ning]

On 2020-02-24 08:08 AM, Ward, Martin wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Trying to install a simplex server and I’m running in to LDAP issues.
>
> Specifically the fact that it seems to be timing out trying to connect 
> to the server itself.  This can be seen when I run “sudo bash”, which 
> eventually reports “Can’t contact LDAP server” and authenticates me 
> against the passwd file.
>
> slapd is definitely not running on start up. I can run “systemctl 
> start slapd” and then see it running, but I still get this timeout error.
>
> I could remove ldap from the nsswitch.conf file but I don’t know how 
> that will break the StarlingX insallation.
>

In a successful deployment, a ldap "admin" user is created. (not in OS 
users files). But I don't think this user is used by any services. So I 
would think it won't break anything if it's removed.

Andy

> Any thought or suggestions?
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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