Is LDAP login case-sensitive in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ?
Issue
- There is a difference in how logins through LDAP are handled between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and RHEL5 on the one hand and RHEL6 on the other. In RHEL6 the logins are case sensitive, in previous versions they were case insensitive.
RHEL6: case sensitive.
# id User
uid=40549(User) gid=40550(User) groups=40550(User)
# id user
id: user: No such user
RHEL4: case-insensitive.
# id User
uid=40549(User) gid=40550(User) groups=40550(User)
# id user
uid=40549(user) gid=40550(user) groups=40550(user)
- Is there a way to enable RHEL6 to handle case insensitive login names?
- Is the ldap.conf configuration item nss_check_case recognized and supported in RHEL6?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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