From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/0 Description of problem: If httpd.conf has a VirtualHost section containing a 'User x' directive, apache will not find user 'x' if this user has been defined in an external (LDAP) database rather than /etc/passwd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure your system to use an LDAP user database 2. Create an apache configuration with a VirtualHost section containing directive 'User testuser' 2. Add 'testuser' to the LDAP database 3. (Re)start apache Actual Results: Apache reports in /var/log/apachage/error_log [Wed Aug 7 10:46:29 2002] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart httpd: bad user name testuser Expected Results: It should have obtained the user information from the LDAP database and started properly. Additional info: 'testuser' is otherwise fully usable as a user account. The problem can be worked around by adding 'testuser' to /etc/passwd. Apache does not appear to have a problem with 'Group testuser'.
Hmm, on closer look this may very well have been caused by an update of the nss_ldap RPM. This may have confused the running apache instance, causing it not to shutdown. It appears to work properly now. Also the apache 1.3.26 source shows that getpwnam() is used to obtain the user id, which should be OK. I'll close this bug for now. Sorry for the inconvinience!