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Solaris 9 working with posixAccount on LDAP

1. edit /etc/nsswitch.ldap
   
   Change the hosts: line from
   hosts: ldap [blah.....] files
   to
   hosts: files dns

2. Run this command:
   (Should be all one line)
   
   ldapclient manual -a authenticationMethod=none -a \
   defaultSearchBase=cn=accounts,dc=stanford,dc=edu -a \
   defaultServerList="ldap.Stanford.EDU" -a \
   domainName="stanford.edu" -a followReferrals=false -a \
   serviceSearchDescriptor=passwd:cn=accounts,dc=stanford,dc=edu\?sub -a
   serviceSearchDescriptor=group:cn=accounts,dc=stanford,dc=edu\?sub