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Re: Authentication Failure In pam_ldap ?
by Alex Samad
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:47:39PM -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
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> Hello (Alex),
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> Plz see below for your reply in blue coloured text!!
I use a text mail client so colours don't help. :)
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> ----- 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 ?
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> Hi Jyotishmaan
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> Can I suggest, if you are trying to administer this box on a full time
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> that you really need to reconsider that. The error messages are being
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> 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.
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> Again this is a very simple problem.
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> check your /home/jmaan directory make sure jmaan is the owner of that
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> 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".true
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> 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.
true
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> Then how to solve this, well let me think!!
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> 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".
This is very basic linux admin stuff, change the owner of the directory !
read up on chown, chmod and chgrp
you can try man or google
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> So, next, now as you said i would try to log in from the text console.
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> Thanks Alex,
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> Jyotishmaan
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> Alex
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> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:53:07AM -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
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> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.
> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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> Hello (Alex),
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> Plz see below for your reply in blue coloured text!!
I use a text mail client so colours don't help. :)
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> ----- 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 ?
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> 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".
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> 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.
true
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> 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".
This is very basic linux admin stuff, change the owner of the directory !
read up on chown, chmod and chgrp
you can try man or google
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> So, next, now as you said i would try to log in from the text console.
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> Thanks Alex,
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> Jyotishmaan
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> Alex
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> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:53:07AM -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
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> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.
> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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