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Re: uidNumber and gidNumber of nslcd user and group



On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 10:51 +0200, Moisés Barba Pérez wrote:
> is it important the uidNumber and gidNumber of nslcd user and group
> were 65 and 55 respectively? I'm wondering this because in my ldap
> machines I have already used those numbers and I have to change the
> numbers for nslcd user and group.

No. The only thing nslcd uses the user and group for is for running the
daemon with dedicated privileges, the exact values don't matter. You
only have to be a bit careful that the daemon can read any LDAP files it
needs (mostly when using something like Kerberos).

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