Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-25 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 05:06, Stephen Gran wrote: Stephan, to start it is possible to do what you want... > By accident, I reran finger in my root session that was kept open as an > "I hope I don't hose something" backup plan, and it worked. Now I start > to think ACL's, nscd permissions, etc, bu

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-25 Thread J.J. van Gorkum
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 05:06, Stephen Gran wrote: Stephan, to start it is possible to do what you want... > By accident, I reran finger in my root session that was kept open as an > "I hope I don't hose something" backup plan, and it worked. Now I start > to think ACL's, nscd permissions, etc, bu

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-24 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
There's an explanation of this issue and some suggested workarounds on the (upstream) ldap-pam list, basically as finger knows nothing about ldap, it's better to substitute the 'finger' command with some perl/python/shell script that does the same but queries the ldap server directly. http://

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Loftis
augh disregard my last...sound slike you got that done. long day over here already. can you turn up debugging on your slapd? loglevel 256 or loglevel 512 are VERY helpful, they log what searches are run--one or both does i can't remember...this way you can find out whats up. --On Tuesday, Ma

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Loftis
indexes only affect how fast a lookup happens, not if it happens. really it sounds like you forgot to, or didn't complete setting up your nss-ldap (/etc/nsswitch, libnss-ldap, nscd, and friends). pam is only for authentication/authorization NOT accounts information. home directories, user id nu

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-24 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
There's an explanation of this issue and some suggested workarounds on the (upstream) ldap-pam list, basically as finger knows nothing about ldap, it's better to substitute the 'finger' command with some perl/python/shell script that does the same but queries the ldap server directly. http://

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Loftis
augh disregard my last...sound slike you got that done. long day over here already. can you turn up debugging on your slapd? loglevel 256 or loglevel 512 are VERY helpful, they log what searches are run--one or both does i can't remember...this way you can find out whats up. --On Tuesday, Ma

Re: Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Loftis
indexes only affect how fast a lookup happens, not if it happens. really it sounds like you forgot to, or didn't complete setting up your nss-ldap (/etc/nsswitch, libnss-ldap, nscd, and friends). pam is only for authentication/authorization NOT accounts information. home directories, user id n

Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am having the strangest LDAP issue. We recently migrated a network from a hodgepdge of system accounts to an all LDAP setup, with the exception of a few administrative accounts. All seems to be working well, except for one thing - finger. id returns the expected values, users can l

Strabge LDAP problem

2004-03-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am having the strangest LDAP issue. We recently migrated a network from a hodgepdge of system accounts to an all LDAP setup, with the exception of a few administrative accounts. All seems to be working well, except for one thing - finger. id returns the expected values, users can l