Re: Authentication Failure In pam_ldap ?

----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Samad <alex@...>
To: pamldap@...
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 2:09:08 AM
Subject: Re: [pamldap] Authentication Failure In pam_ldap ?

Hi Jyotishmaan

Can I suggest, if you are trying to administer this box on a full time basis
that you really need to reconsider that.  The error messages are being very
clear as to what the problem is and it should very simple for you to check/test
them. If this a learning exercise you need to do more study on this.

Again this is a very simple problem.




check your /home/jmaan directory make sure jmaan is the owner of that directory
and he has rwx permissions

Unless a user is not created by the system administrator(here, the root), how will this /home/jmaan will be there and  owned by the user-"jmaan".

Next, if the administrator creates this /home/jmaan directory, will it be owned by the the user-"jmaan". This is so cause, the user-jmaan's file was migrated into the ldap server machine in LDIF format, so there arises no question of having a local /home/jmaan directory in the server machine.

Then how to solve  this, well let me think!!

I tried doing this, still, the same errors were displayed, as then "jmaan" is not the owner of the /home/jmaan but rather the owner is "root".

So, next, now as you said i would try to log in from the text console.

Thanks Alex,

Jyotishmaan

Alex

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:53:07AM -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote: