Howto determine a shared/network source of users and groups is active?

[Florian Weimer]

* Stef Bon:

>> This seems to be something that needs FreeIPA or perhaps Kerberos
>> support, so I'd suggest to ask on those lists.
>
> That is an idea, but to begin with is there a way/tool to detect the
> sources /databases of the passwd and group in Linux? Other than
> scanning the /etc/nsswitch.conf file?
>
> So probably not.

No, I don't think so.  The LDAP integration module probably isn't even
called “ldap”.  For example, in Fedora and downstreams, it's called
“sss”.

Thanks,
Florian