Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:45, Carlos Santana<neubyr at gmail.com> wrote: > I intend to install lustre file system on the systems. It does not > support LDAP and need to have etc passwd/groups database. Where does that information come from? Even though Lustre might not support LDAP directly, it should work with NSS which makes the access to the user/group information transparent to applications. Unless an application accesses /etc/passwd directly (which I sincerely doubt Lustre does) it will work with nss_ldap. HTH, Filipe