Hi Ram
apparently, its not postfix itself, which connects to LDAP, but the nss
library, which brings up the following idea:
postfix, when starting up, wants to verify the user it shall run under,
which is done via the nss library. If this user is not a unix user, the
nss library will try to contact the LDAP server according to
/etc/nsswitch.conf
suomi
On 2010-06-04 12:04, Ram wrote:
On our postfix servers , we use a remote ldapserver for system-auth for
some FM users. System users login via /etc/shadow .. FM users login via
ldap.
The MTA is not configured to use any ldap connection.
Yet whenever postfix is being restarted , If the remote ldapserver is
not available postfix refuses to start.
I get errors like this
Jun 4 14:53:00 mmail postfix/smtpd[23565]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to
LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)...
Jun 4 14:53:04 mmail postfix/smtpd[23565]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to
LDAP server ldap://XXXXXXXX: Can't contact LDAP server
Jun 4 14:53:04 mmail postfix/smtpd[23565]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to
LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)...
Jun 4 14:53:12 mmail postfix/smtpd[23565]: nss_ldap: reconnected to
LDAP server ldap://XXXXXXXXXX after 3 attempts
How do I configure postfix , not to connect to ldap at all.
Thanks
Ram
