ldap bug in hardy

[Christian Stegmann]

Hello,

I am facing similar problems. Despite a lot of effort I could not get
my LDAP client setup to run on Hardy (it runs smoothly on Dapper on
another machine). First I followed strictly
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAPClientAuthentication. However,
/etc/libnss-ldap.conf or /etc/libpam-ldap.conf are not generated after
the installation of the packages.
Then I tried to reproduce the Dapper-setup by manually editing
/etc/libnss-ldap.conf and /etc/libpam-ldap.conf. I also commented out
the aforementioned pam_smbpass.so related lines. This also failed,
getent passwd does not work.
I can access the server using ldapsearch -x though. Any help appreciated.

thanks,
christian

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Marco Schmidt <schmidt at fgcz.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Thanks for your answer.
>
>  libpam-smbpass is and was not installed. There are no libpam-smbpass
> entries in any pam.d files.
>
>  To make sure, I installed libpam-smbpass. But no change in the ldap
> behavior.
>
>  # id user
>
>  id: result.c:112: ldap_result: Assertion `ld != ((void *)0)' failed.
>  uid=10039(user) gid=10147(group1)Aborted
>
>  /var/log/auth.log
>  Apr 30 09:09:33 hostname id: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server -
> Server is unavailable
>
>  With ldapsearch or getent I can contact the server without problems.
>
>
>  NoOp wrote:
>
> > On 04/29/2008 07:14 AM, Marco Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Exactly the same config under gutsy (7.10) works great.
> > >
> > > The problem occurs on a hardy upgrade and on a hardy fresh installation.
> > >
> > > I compiled and installed openldap 2.4.8 and nss_ldap 260 on my own (with
> > > the default settings)
> > >
> > > Now it works perfectly!
> > >
> > > Could there be a bug in ldap version 2.4.7-6ubuntu3 of nss_ldap
> > > 258-1ubuntu3 (ubuntu hardy)?
> > >
> >
> > You might check your old auth.log's and see if you find errors like this:
> >
> > PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so)
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/222003
> > [Can't contact LDAP server]
> >
> > There have been quite a few issues with some of the pam.d files
> > referencing pam_smbpass.so. Some have resolved with installing
> > libpam-smbpass, but it can be resolved by commenting out the
> > pam_smbpass.so related lines in /etc/pam.d/common-auth and
> > /etc/pam.d/common-password:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/216990
> > commenting out the pam_smbpass.so related lines in
> > /etc/pam.d/common-auth and /etc/pam.d/common-password
> >
> >
> >
>
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