Stewart James said: > > I am so sorry, I just realised why I was not seeing my posts in the > archives. Helps if you change to most recent pages. I was posting without > being a member and thought maybe debial was dropping my posts for some > reason), my last post was being a member.
well glad i really am not crazy!! You didn't mention you were not on the list, if you had I [cw]ould of cc:'d you. > I am doing nothing especially difficult. All were done with simple > installing libpam-ldap following the prompts. > > Of 5 machines I have tried this on only one is working. The others all > give the error ldap_simple_bind: cannot connect to server. > > My config is simple > host ldap.vu.edu.au > base o=vu.edu.au > ldap_version 3 > port 389 > pam_password clear from the servers that do NOT work can you try something like ldapsearch -b "o=vu.edu.au" -LLL -H "ldap://ldap.vu.edu.au:389/"; '(objectClass=*)' -x this should spew out everything in your LDAP database. if you get an error, try turning on debug mode, i use -d 256 at first then jump to -d 65536. if it works try putting this line in your /etc/pam_ldap.conf: uri ldap://ldap.vu.edu.au:389/ (in addition to all the others) if it doesn't connect, sounds like there could be some sort of firewall or other mechanism preventing connection. > Watching the network, I can see pam_ldap doing a lookup for ldap.vu.edu.au > - and getting a result, it looksup a AAAA record for ldap.vu.edu.au then > AAAA for ldap.vu.edu.au.its.vu.edu.au then finally looks up A for > ldap.vu.edu.au and gets an IP address. But it never attempts to connect. > > For some reason, and I don;t know why ldap_simple_bind fails without > attempting to connect the host. not sure either, but doing a ldapsearch SHOULD produce the same results as what pam_ldap does, and you can turn on debugging to see whats going on. good luck nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
