Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

________________________________ From: Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 5:47 AM Subject: [CentOS] Can only login as root

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

May  3 12:14:13 helen su: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://www.gayleard.com/: Can't contact LDAP server May  3 12:14:13 helen su: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server   (sleeping 64 seconds)...

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How does your /etc/nsswitch.conf look?  Particularly the 'passwd:' line?