Re: Question about system accounts in LDAP.
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 00:58, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 01:50, Fred Clausen wrote:
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> >
> > What would you guys suggest is the best practice?
>
> In general its inadvisable to have system users in LDAP; when LDAP
> breaks you can't even log in at the console as root.
>
> The default LDAP migration script in the debian migrationtools does not
> migrate all users below UID 1000 and groups below GID 100.
>
Wouldn't it make more sense just to leave root in passwd, and everything
else runs from ldap? (Except possibly the openldap user... nasty
circular dependency there :P)
>
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> Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>
> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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