Re: [CentOS] Problems with nss_ldap - where to start?

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:07 -0800, Peter Serwe wrote:

Found an ldif user recipe for CentOS5.2..

Added the user "tactest" with the password "tactest".

Dec 16 12:05:30 ldap sshd[11705]pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass; user unknown Dec 16 12:05:30 ldap sshd[11705]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=ldap Dec 16 12:05:30 ldap sshd[11705]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): error retrieving information about user tactest

auth still fails.

---- before you get into authorizations...

does the user show? I think not...

getent passwd |grep tactest

if that's the case, and you want help from the list...

what is in files... /etc/nsswitch.com /etc/pam.d/system-auth /etc/ldap.conf

Craig