On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:24 -0800, Peter Serwe wrote: > 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. ---- forget 'telnet' Can you do an ldapsearch? ldapsearch -x -h localhost -D '$YOUR_ROOT_BIND_DN' -W '(ou=*)' Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.