Enabling Ldap Name Service Has Stopped Sound Working

#1 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 05:34

I've enabled LDAP group lookups on my SuSE 10.2 machine at work (using compat), which works fine. However I no longer have a working sound system. I notice that the audio device files no longer get an ACL allowing me access, so I'm guessing it must be related to a conflict with resmgr (though strangely other device files do, such as the nvidia ones). Has anyone else seen this problem?

#2 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 07:16

Are you sure compat is a suitable setting? Maybe what you want is for group lookup to look at /etc/group first, and then if not found, try ldap. You may have to tailor the entry for group in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

#3 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 08:10

BTW, to check what entries you are getting for group, do:

getent group

You may find that audio isn't where it used to be before LDAP. That would throw things out of whack.

#4 (**permalink**) 31-May-2008, 08:46

Cheers, I'll have a look at the getent group output and try the "files ldap" entry in nsswitch.conf instead of compat.

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