Re: [nssldap] release 0.2 of nss-ldapd

[Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack [at] terra.com.br>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:37:26PM +0200, Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007 17:39, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > On Monday, 18 June 2007, Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> > > - Some interesting new feature could be added. E.g. offline support in
> > > nss_ldap. (For that of course a caching feature would need to be added to
> > > nss_ldap)
> >
> > Would this really be useful ? I've been using nss_updatedb/nss_db to have
> > offline support (in conjunction with pam_ccreds). 
> I don't know nss_updatedb/nss_db tool well, but IIRC it just dumbs the whole 
> user database into a db-file (using getent passwd, getent group). This might 

There is a patch to make it cache only some users/groups, kind of on-demand:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/nss_updatedb/current/SOURCES/nss_updatedb-4-key.patch?view=markup