Hi, I just set up LDAP authentication and it works fine. However, when running the init script there comes up an error that clutters up my syslog with a lot of useless error messages.
@(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.38 (Oct 18 2007 22:12:26) $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.3.38/work/openldap-2.3.38/servers/slapd nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server ... nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable WARNING: No dynamic config support for database ldbm. slapd starting I found out that the Gentoo init script activates the options "-u ldap -g ldap". Without them, the error messages do not appear. Therefore I suppose the slapd daemon tries to obtain passwd/shadow information for ldap via nss_ldap. At least when I say "compat" in nsswitch.conf, the error message doesn't appear as well. The thing I really wonder about is that the lines in nsswitch.conf say passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap The files should be searched first. The "ldap" information is present in all three of them. I even tried to chown the shadow file to ldap but this didn't save me from encountering the weird messages either. Could someone enlighten me what is going on here, please? Thanks in advance, Bertram Scharpf -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
