LDAP and the dbus user

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:52 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:
> fre 2007-11-16 klockan 13:09 +0100 skrev Ralf Ertzinger:
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:17:21 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
> 
> > > the result is
> > > NetworkManager needs DBus, which needs LDAP, which needs
> > > NetworkManager.  The result?  The system freezes at the first service
> > > in the cycle.
> > 
> > There is a neat option I learned some time ago:
> > 
> > nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus
> > 
> > This (should) make ldap ignore these users (which exist locally,
> > unless you manually removed them)
> 
> Oh yes... Is the correct solution here to make this the default?

Yes; actually I think the right thing is to to always look up locally
any uid which is less than 500, because Fedora reserves those for the
operating system.  Can't find a reference at the moment, but if someone
does, add it to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UsersAndGroups