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.