Look up bind_policy not soft_bind. This gives a good description: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-nss_ldap-and-udevd-p3202151.html
-Jason On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:38 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. Regarding the soft_bind option for openldap: I > can't seem to find any documentation for this option. Do you have a > link to a site describing this? > > On 1/8/09, Adam Jacob <a...@hjksolutions.com> wrote: >> >> On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: >>> I've noticed that on servers that are both puppet and LDAP clients, >>> the puppet client will hang if the LDAP server is not reachable. >>> Does >>> anyone know what the reason for this is? >> >> You should start using nscd (or your platform equivilant,) which will >> at least allow your name service lookups to complete. If you are >> using OpenLDAP, ensure that you have soft_bind set on the clients. >> >> If you are using nss_ldap, I recommend looking at nss_ldapd >> (http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/nss-ldapd/design.html >> ) as a super nice replacement. >> >> Regards, >> Adam >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
