Re: Need help determining cause of login problem

Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 14:17:37 schrieb Tony Earnshaw:

> This in your log: "ldap_search_s No such object" (aka error 32) means it
> can't find the directory suffix c.q. search base, which should be
> configured (with a lot more things) in said pam_ldap.conf.

Thanks for the hint! That pointed me to a typing error in /etc/pam_ldap.conf
which caused pam_ldap to check a wrong search base...

Is there a list available anywhere that gives possible reasons for error
messages? Without your mail, I would not have guessed that sending pam_ldap
to look in a non-existing search base might lead to "No such object", "No
such search base" might have been more appropriate as the object /is/ in the
directory, albeit with a different dn...

> Again Googling, here's how Michael Hammer does it:
>
> http://tugll.tugraz.at/88684/weblog/3682.html

Well, I'm truly grateful for each tutorial or howto anyone puts on the web. I
just wish they'd explain the meaning of options used and some alternatives...
(Yes, I'll go and improve the howto on the Debian wiki once this is done.
Promise.)

Regards,

  Jürgen