[sudo-users] sudo ldap caching

[Michael Ströder]

Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:24:38 +0100, Daniele Palumbo wrote:
>> I would like to know how sudo can be cached for Solaris and AIX.
>> For Linux i know that sssd may be used.
>>
>> i have found -apart from sssd- only one reference:
>> https://www.sudo.ws/pipermail/sudo-workers/2006-June/000420.html
>>
>> Is there already caching available for sudo?
> 
> I'm not aware of an LDAP caching solution other than sssd.

The referenced mailing list posting above mentions running a lean OpenLDAP
instance with back-ldap and proxy cache overlay (slapo-pcache). The local pcache
database is in this case only used for persisting the cached entries.

Ciao, Michael.