Re: AW: PAM problems with login... Please Help

[Cliff Friedel <cliff@wrkcs.net>]

I am checking that out right now as we speak.  I will let you know how it
goes.  Thanks.

Cliff

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Kintrup, Jens wrote:

> Hi Cliff,
> 
> there is a bug in the nss_ldap rpm of SuSE 6.4. You can find an at
> http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/64_update.html. Al my
> problems where solved by installing this package. Do you have installed this
> package?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Cliff Friedel [mailto:cliff@wrkcs.net]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2000 15:53
> An: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Betreff: PAM problems with login... Please Help
> 
> Hi all.  Having a problem when I try to use LDAP to authenticate logins to
> our SuSE 6.4 box.  Instead of a successful login going to the shell, it
> just sends me back to login, no errors, no problems recorded.  If I check
> my slapd logs, it shows the authentication request come in and a
> successful return of info.  Now, I have my LDAP user entries setup as
> posixAccounts and have all info required by theis object in the LDAP
> entry.  I also made sure to change my nnswitch.conf to look at the LDAP
> entries for passwd and group info.  I have tried about 20 different PAM
> setups to get this to work, but to no avail.  It authenticates then kicks
> me back to a login prompt.  If I try to authenticate with a user on the
> box (in other words with a passwd entry), I have no problems...
> 
> Can somebody please send me an example of what they have in their
> /etc/pam.d/login file or give me some advice on this one... This is really
> frustrating.  ANOTHER SIDE NOTE:  I also have proftpd running which uses
> posixAccount style entries.  Users can login just fine there, getting
> UID/GID info fro mthe LDAP database without a problem...
> 
> Any help you can give me would be appreciated.  TIA.
> 
> Cliff
> 
> 
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