Is it possible to suppress LDAP users temporarily on a client?

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Issue

  • An application (i.e. DB2) checks for the existence of a user.

  • The user already exists in the directory, the lookup should be prevented temporarily for the application's installation script to succeed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 server using

  • LDAP directory (i.e. OpenLDAP, ActiveDirectory) accessed by the server

  • Policy not allowing the server to temporarily not use the LDAP services

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