> I've been unsuccessfully trying to get nss_ldap to work. I've chased down
> hundreds of google searches over the last 3 days, and I can't seem to get
> a
> centos system to authenticate against ldap.
>
> Every daemon on the system is running into the same problem:
>
> nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable
>
> sshd, nscd, httpd, you name it..
>
> slapd is clearly running, telnet localhost 389 actually connects me to it.
>
> I've run authconfig, /etc/sysconfig/authconfig agrees.
>
> I'm at a complete and utter loss. I've followed every how-to out there,
> RH, Openldap, Debian, FreeBSD I can verify ldap is working, I can't seem
> to get any PAM applications to use it.
First question: do you have tls enabled on the client, and not the server,
or vice versa?
Second question: on the server, can you do a search?
Handy tool: webmin has a whole ldap section, and can give you a *lot* of
clues as to what's going wrong.
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