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Description of problem: It should be correctly stated in man page of nslcd.conf that multiple URIs can be set by using more uri lines or more URIs defined on one uri line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-20.el6_6.3 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. man nslcd.conf 2. 3. Actual results: uri URI Specifies the LDAP URI of the server to connect to. The URI scheme may be ldap, ldapi or ldaps, specifying LDAP over TCP, ICP or SSL respectively (if supported by the LDAP library). Alternatively, the value DNS may be used to try to lookup the server using DNS SRV records. By default the current domain is used but another domain can be queried by using the DNS:DOMAIN syntax. When using the ldapi scheme, %2f should be used to escape slashes (e.g. ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd%2fldapi/), although most of the time this should not be needed. This option may be specified multiple times. Normally, only the first server will be used with the following servers as fall-back (see bind_timelimit below). If LDAP lookups are used for host name resolution, any host names should be specified as an IP address or name that can be resolved without using LDAP. Expected results: uri URI ... Specifies the LDAP URI of the server to connect to. The URI scheme may be ldap, ldapi or ldaps, specifying LDAP over TCP, ICP or SSL respectively (if supported by the LDAP library). Alternatively, the value DNS may be used to try to lookup the server using DNS SRV records. By default the current domain is used but another domain can be queried by using the DNS:DOMAIN syntax. When using the ldapi scheme, %2f should be used to escape slashes (e.g. ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd%2fldapi/), although most of the time this should not be needed. This option may be specified multiple times and/or with more URIs on the line, separated by space. Normally, only the first server will be used with the following servers as fall-back (see bind_timelimit below). If LDAP lookups are used for host name resolution, any host names should be specified as an IP address or name that can be resolved without using LDAP.
Thanks for your patch. I will probably include your text in the next (upstream) release of nss-pam-ldapd. However, the option to have space-separated URIs was mostly added as a compatibility hack for nss_ldap so was more or less an explicitly undocumented feature.
Patch was accepted upstream as 95d621ef8cb5d4969e58262eef34b0c0fde9ae6e
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0758.html