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Operating Systems Linux SuSE user management - LDAP and local files Post 302277118 by scampi on Thursday 15th of January 2009 12:47:58 PM
Old 01-15-2009
Data user management - LDAP and local files

I am implementing LDAP on Linux based system using openldap.
My management objects to the idea that all individual users will authenticate against an LDAP server because “what if it is not available”
Their suggestion is that we run in parallel a set of local configured users and a set of LDAP configured users and both methods can coexist without conflicts.
I think it is a very bad idea but I cannot think of any good justification why it should be the case.
Besides the obvious that it is going to be very hard to maintain two separate methods for user management on multiple servers (about 20) and that it can create confusion when creating new users or disabling users.
Just to clarify, we have a cluster for the LDAP server and we have high availability.
Also, generic users that are required by the application or the database will stay on the local files.
I am talking about having some individual users managed locally in /etc/shadow and some using the LDAP server no synchronization between the two.
I know it sounds a horrible idea but I need to come up with some strong arguments to convince my “old fashioned” management.
I will appreciate any argument either way.
thanks
 

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Net::LDAP::Control::Relax(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Net::LDAP::Control::Relax(3)

NAME
Net::LDAP::Control::Relax - LDAPv3 Relax control object SYNOPSIS
use Net::LDAP; use Net::LDAP::Control::Relax; $ldap = Net::LDAP->new( "ldap.mydomain.eg" ); $relax = Net::LDAP::Control::Relax->new(); $msg = $ldap->modify( 'dc=sub,dc=mydomain,dc=eg", changes => [ replace => { modifyTimestamp => '19700101000000Z' } ], control => [ $relax ] ); die "error: ",$msg->code(),": ",$msg->error() if ($msg->code()); DESCRIPTION
"Net::LDAP::Control::Relax" provides an interface for the creation and manipulation of objects that represent the "Relax" control as described by draft-zeilenga-ldap-relax-03.txt The presence of the Relax control in an LDAP update request indicates the server temporarily relax X.500 model constraints during performance of the directory update. The control is appropriate for all LDAP update requests, including add, delete, modify, and modifyDN (rename) [RFC4511]. Its criticality is always set to TRUE, and no value. There is no corresponding response control. CONSTRUCTOR ARGUMENTS
Since the "Relax" control does not have any values only the constructor arguments described in Net::LDAP::Control are supported METHODS
As there are no additional values in the control only the methods in Net::LDAP::Control are available for "Net::LDAP::Control::Relax" objects. SEE ALSO
Net::LDAP, Net::LDAP::Control, AUTHOR
Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de>. Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the perl-ldap mailing list <perl-ldap@perl.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2013 Peter Marschall. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.3 2013-06-08 Net::LDAP::Control::Relax(3)
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