Emmanuel Lesouef:
> Hi,
>
> I don't really know if this is the good mailing-list but this is
> definitely postfix related.
>
> On some of our servers, we use postfix as our MX and smtp relay.
>
> On these servers, we use ldap authentication for our posix users.
>
> The problem is that when postfix receives/sends an email, it does a
> lookup in our LDAP proxy to get postfix's group and uid. This
> definitely ends up with a "0 entries found" which is not a problem
> because /etc/nsswitch.conf contains the following :
>
> passwd: compat ldap
> group: compat ldap
> shadow: compat ldap
>
> Is there a way to tell postfix (and other services, as well) not to try
> ldap ?
Postfix does not look in /etc/nsswitch.conf. That is the job of
the getpwnam SYSTEM LIBRARY ROUTINE.
Wietse
