[CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

Thu Jul 15 10:58:55 UTC 2010
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

> The problem I am having is that shadow does not seem to get cached by
> nscd. Here's how I have tracked this down.

NSCD not caching shadow user credentials is a fact. There is nothing wrong
with your configuration. NSCD just does not do what you seem to expect
from it. You can't make it what you like to.

If your LDAP server is gone, you will not be able to login. Run a replica
server to avoid a single point of failure.

> Brian

Alexander