LDAP client question

[David Hopkins]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jim Christiansen <
jim.c.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you need to re-make/build the nis/yp make file?  I can't remember the
> jargon, but after adding new users you need to rebuild the nis database if I
> rmember.  I've been stuck on that for an hour or two in the past.
>

Well ... I'm not sure why that would be needed as I'm not using nis but ldap
and the passwd file.  I did forget to restart nscd but ... it is all moot at
this point as my brand new server can't find the disk drives/Raid array
anymore.  I used the ext4 filesystem and had a similar issue with my other
32bit server. That I corrected by going back to ext3. I'll re-install with
ext3 and try again.  There are some comments that ext4 has trouble with some
hardware, and maybe I'm just one of those lucky few.

> Well ... I tried following what I thought were the correct instructions for
> getting ubuntu to authenticate against my existing ldap server (which is
> based on RHEL 5).  After installing auth-config and ldap-auth-config,
> answering all of the questions, specifying the existing ldap server using an
> IP address ... etc. I couldn't use su - someuser to become that user. The
> error was simply "user not found" .. So, I locatedhttp://mcwhirter.com.au/node/25 which also mentioned nsswitch.conf
> modifications.  On my CentOS LTSP servers, the changes mentioned exist, so I
> added the changes on this ubuntu server. And ... I could then su - someuser
> and I was logged in as that user in the correct (nfs-mounted) home
> directory.
>
> I then logged out and tried to log in at the console as that user. It
> doesn't work.  So ... I ssh'ed into the server as that user which did work.
>
>
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