amd64/122858: nsswitch in 7.0 is f*cked up
tom
zaphod at fsklaw.com
Thu Apr 17 15:50:01 UTC 2008
>Number: 122858
>Category: amd64
>Synopsis: nsswitch in 7.0 is f*cked up
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-amd64
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 17 15:50:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: tom
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0 release
>Organization:
fsk
>Environment:
FreeBSD to-new.fsklaw.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 16 14:22:33 PDT 2008 TMS3 at to-new.fsklaw.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IPFAST amd64
>Description:
Well you all seriously f'd up nsswitch huh?
I've used this nsswitch.conf file for YEARS for samba/ldap/login etc.
passwd: files ldap
shadow: files ldap
group: files ldap
hosts: files dns wins
####NEW###
networks: files dns
automount: files ldap nisplus
aliases: files ldap nisplus
Use this and samba-ldap works but you can't shell in or ftp or anything.
Use this:
group: cache files ldap[ unavail=continue notfound=continue ]
passwd: cache files ldap [ unavail=continue notfound=continue ]
#group_compat: nis
hosts: compat
networks: files
#passwd_compat: nis
shells: files
services: compat
services_compat: nis
protocols: files
rpc: files
And samba-ldap, ssh login and ftp login works, but the damned machine won't resolve DNS.
Desperately flailing about and doing this:
group: cache files ldap[ unavail=continue notfound=continue ]
passwd: cache files ldap [ unavail=continue notfound=continue ]
#group_compat: nis
hosts: compat dns
networks: files dns
#passwd_compat: nis
shells: files dns
services: compat dns
services_compat: nis dns
protocols: files dns
rpc: files dns
does no good.
Only the default nsswitch.conf file actually does DNS, and the first one I posted will actually do DNS lookups. I'd really like to be able to do all of these things with a single nsswitch.conf file. PERHAPS when you guys make such SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES to such a necessary component, you could...oh I dunno...DOCUMENT IT SOMEWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I searched google for 6 hours yesterday to find something similar to the second nsswitch.conf file, which I still had to edit to make it work for samba-ldap/ssh/ftp login. This is seriously ridiculous. How the hell am I supposed to use 7.0 in a production environment? I had fewer problems with 5.1 than I'm having with 7.0.
TMS III
>How-To-Repeat:
Hell, just use the nsswitch.conf files I posted.
>Fix:
Why I'm asking.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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