[CentOS] nss_ldap failed to bind to LDAP server 127.0.0.1

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Feb 20 00:07:52 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:05 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: Craig White Sent: February 19, 2008 15:31
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:09 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> > > 
> > >   Feb 17 19:46:18 fisds0 named[23187]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to
> > >   LDAP server 127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server
> > >   Feb 17 19:46:18 fisds0 named[23187]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to
> > >   LDAP server...
> > > 
> > > However the errors are still being reported in the messages log
> > > file.
> > > The errors are valid as we do not have and LDAP server (on my list 
> > > for a future project). What I am trying to figure out is why it is
> > > looking for one. I have done some additional google searching but I
> > > have not found any definitive answers. From what I have seen I
> > > suspect
> > > that the problem lays with our /etc/nsswitch.conf file and that I 
> > > need to change references to "file ldap" to just "files".
> > >
> >  
> > I have to use these in CentOS 5.x
> > 
> > tail -n 4 /etc/ldap.conf
> > timelimit 30
> > bind_timelimit 30
> > bind_policy soft
> > nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but these would appear to control the way
> that LDAP behaves. Since we do not have an LDAP server I would think
> that they would be superfluous. What I really need to do is stop
> things from looking for an LDAP server in the first place.
> 
> Thanks again for your suggestion.
> 
> Regards, Hugh
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gotcha

what is in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?

Craig




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