Hi, I know you're all busy with the 11.2 release, but maybe someone can give nevertheless me a quick answer on that question. TIA. :-) :-) In 11.1 the new package nss-ldapd was introduced, with the daemon nslcd. It is supposed to be used for LDAP connection pooling when one wants to have LDAP being a nameservice source, like passwd or group. Since quite some time nscd, the nameservice cache daemon, also has that functionality as a side effect. Since programs don't make nss queries themselves, but contact the cache daemon, only it connects to the LDAP server. How is that supposed to work together? -- Shall one use only one of them? -- Or both? -- Does nslcd replace nscd when one uses LDAP? There are no dependencies in the packages and no notes in the documentation (that I found ;-)) what is the best practice concerning these nameservice lookup daemons. Can anyone spend some light on this issue, please? Joachim PS: It's also quite irritating that nss_ldap still exists with the old PADL README* files, as in 10.x, but nss-ldapd claims that it's a reimplementation of nss_ldap -- and both packages include the same /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2. So either one or the other README is wrong. :-( I also don't know if one should install both nss_ldap and nss-ldapd or only one of them. No dependencies, no conflicts; argc, argv, aaaargggghhh, ... PPS: Philip Thomas recommended to ask this question here, and not on the opensuse mailing list. I'm a new subscriber, so I hope I didn't break any mailing list etiquettes. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org