Thanks for the quick response. I'll answer in the text below - John On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 06:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. We have just started to explore Debian Lenny as a platform > > and have been delightfully impressed however we're hitting a problem > > using LDAP authentication that we have not experienced in RedHat or > > Ubuntu. We do not allow anonymous LDAP queries but rather > > configure /etc/pam_ldap.conf with a binddn and bindpw. > > > > Our LDAP queries are failing and, when we look at the access logs on our > > CentOS Directory Server 8.1, we see the binddn is empty: > > > Hi > > on my debian system I have a couple of packages installed to handle ldap > userid db. > > pam handles one side of it but you need the nss stuff as well. There > are 2 sets of packages, the one I use (I like it better - works how I > like it to work and seems to be getting active maintenance). > > nslcd and with this you will need libnss-ldapd & libpam-ldapd they both > need config files in /etc libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap are installed. I do not see a packaged named nslcd unless it's a typo for nscd which is installed as well. > > > [snip] > > > > > pam_ldap.conf looks like this: > > > > [snip] > > you need to look at the nss config file as well Do you mean nsswitch.conf? If so, we did address that - files ldap for passwd, group, and shadow. > > > We could very likely have a missing package. This is a vserver and they > > install a very skeleton base system. For example, the system initially > > did not query at all until we realized we needed to install passwd. > > This is an X2Go print server (hopefully many desktops to come > > immediately after!) so we have installed: > > [snip] > > > maybe you are missing stuff, like the nss ldap package. getent passwd > should show you all your users work from there and then getent group getent passwd only shows local users > > > > did we do wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've lost days > > tracking this down with no answer. Thanks - John Still eagerly looking for hints and suggestions. Thanks - John
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