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| author | Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> | 2007-07-13 08:26:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> | 2007-07-13 08:26:39 +0000 |
| commit | 36c94a0bb8e178a9a745b7040c5fa356b362e95b (patch) | |
| tree | 3fe8c198e2935f86b2408f65b6dc5554e03641b2 /README | |
| parent | f3f7e1a42d9c37dbedf4f33873ac1bbb38dac3b2 (diff) | |
add notes about format of host and ethers entries in LDAP database
git-svn-id: http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd/nss-ldapd@299 ef36b2f9-881f-0410-afb5-c4e39611909c
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@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ Currently the following name databases are supported: aliases, ethers, group, hosts, netgroup, networks, passwd, protocols, rpc, services and shadow +Note that for when using IPv6 hosts entries, the addresses in the LDAP +directory must be in their preferred form. The same is true for mac addresses +for the ethers database. Otherwise the address->entry lookups will not work. +For more details see + http://ldap.akbkhome.com/index.php/attribute/ipHostNumber.html +and + http://ldap.akbkhome.com/index.php/attribute/macAddress.html + automounter map lookups (which are also defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf) are not supported because the NSS interface is not used for these. The common autofs implementation currently uses it's own method for getting the maps from LDAP. |