Listing All User Entry Attributes

To list specific information such as a user's passwd entry, use getent as follows:

# getent passwd user1

user1::30641:10:Joe Q. User:/home/user1:/bin/csh

If you want to list all attributes, use ldaplist with the -l option.

# ldaplist -l passwd user1

dn: uid=user1,ou=People,dc=west,dc=example,dc=com
        uid: user1
        cn: user1
        uidNumber: 30641
        gidNumber: 10
        gecos: Joe Q. User
        homeDirectory: /home/user1
        loginShell: /bin/csh
        objectClass: top
        objectClass: shadowAccount
        objectClass: account
        objectClass: posixAccount
        shadowLastChange: 6445
        userPassword: {crypt}J6vlYXRU.sW8c

Customizing the Client Environment

The following sections describe how you can customize the client environment.

You can change any of the services, but be careful, because if the data is not populated on the server for the service specified things will stop working. In some cases files may not be setup by default as well.

Modifying the nsswitch.conf File

You can modify your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to customize where each service gets its information. The default settings are stored in /etc/nsswitch.ldap and ldapclient uses this file to create your /etc/nsswitch.conf file when the client is initialized.

Enabling DNS

If you want to enable DNS by setting up a /etc/resolv.conf file, add DNS to your hosts lines as shown below.

hosts:      ldap dns [NOTFOUND=return] files