[CentOS] Can only login as root

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:25:02AM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:47 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine.
> > I can only login as root.
> > If I try to login with one of the user's names,
> > it hangs for a long time.
> > I thought it hung forever, but I just found that
> > I do login after "su tim" after 5 minutes.
> > 
> > It seems that the problem lies in repeated messages in /var/log/messages

Sounds like another bug that has been around for years.  
You may be able to fix this by finding a line--on CentOS 5.x I think
it's in /etc/ldap.conf, that says bind_policy hard.  (It's probably
commented out.)  Uncomment it (by removing the # at the beginning of the
line, if there is a # sign) and change it bind_policy soft. 
Then restart ldap if it's running--on 5.8, not sure if it's service
slapd or service ldap.  See if that helps.


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