Re: gdm[7355]: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP server

pj_kejti skrev, on 22-11-2007 14:54:

> I'm having problems trying to authenticate over ldap. I have my server
> running on port 389, when I try ldapsearch on hosts it works, when I try to
> connect through ssh with ldap accounts it works, but when I try to login on
> clients - I can't. /var/log/syslog shows "gdm[7355]: pam_ldap:
> ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP server". I feel like I've tried
> everything, but with no results... If anyone could help me, I'd apprecieate
> it. Here are my conf files:

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You say nothing about your LDAP distro and version or your OS or distro.
Pity, because no-one has any way of relating to them.

Could all be Windows (I couldn't care less, but ...)

I run Red Hat and Fedora and neither have anything like what you report.

> Those are server files - do I have to change those same files on clients?

On my OpenLDAP 2.3.39 and 2.4.6 RHEL5 and FC6 systems, everything is
different to what you report on yours. But basically, the salient
details in the configuration files for both the nss libraries and the
pam libraries have to be the same as for those for slapd. That doesn't
mean *everything* in the pam configuration file also has to be in the
LDAP configuration file, just the relevant bits.

What "bits", for whatever LDAP version you're running you do not report.

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl