[SSSD-users] LDAP and useradd, groupmod, passwd, etc.

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed Aug 13 15:55:16 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 08:03:44AM -0700, Jacob Weber wrote:
> If I use SSSD on CentOS with an LDAP domain, do tools like useradd, groupmod, and passwd affect LDAP users/groups, or do they only affect the ones in /etc/passwd and /etc/group?
> 
> I'd prefer the latter, but I'm not sure whether this is something that can be configured. I know there are also luseradd and lgroupmod, but I'm using a tool (Ansible) that relies on the standard commands.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jacob

The shadow-utils tools only affect the local UNIX files. The luseradd
and lusermod are IIRC from libuser which has some form of LDAP support
although I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.


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