Ok I shall do that. Thank you very much for your extended help in this regards

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
Shamika Joshi <shamika.joshi@gmail.com> writes:

> Here it is...ldap.conf from both my client machines.
>
> Thanks
> Shamika
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
>
>     Shamika Joshi <shamika.joshi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > Please find pam-ldap & nssswitch configuration from my Ubuntu10desktop client & Fed12desktop client. I
>     guess
>     > it looks fine.
>     > Could you review & let me know if you find i've mis-configured or missed out on something?
>
>     I am missing /etc/ldap.conf
>
>     -Dieter
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> /etc/ldap.conf U910deskop
>
> base dc=testlab,dc=com
> ldap_version 3
> rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=testlab,dc=com
> bind_policy soft
> pam_password exop
> nss_initgroups_ignoreusers avahi,avahi-autoipd,backup,bin,couchdb,daemon,games,gdm,gnats,haldaemon,hplip,irc,kernoops,libuuid,list,lp,mail,man,messagebus,news,proxy,pulse,root,saned,speech-dispatcher,sshd,sync,sys,syslog,uucp,www-data

> /etc/ldap.conf Fed12desktop
>
> base dc=testlab,dc=com
> timelimit 120
> bind_timelimit 120
> bind_policy soft
> nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus,radvd,tomcat,radiusd,news,mailman,nscd,gdm,polkituser,rtkit,pulse
> uri ldap://172.17.0.200/
> ssl no
> tls_cacertdir /etc/openldap/cacerts
> pam_password md5

I don't think this configuration will provide the data required. As
support for name service switch is far beyond the scope of this
mailing list you should probably ask on nsswitch related, or ubuntu
related, mailing list on how to properly configure nsswitch in order
to retrieve group information.

-Dieter

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