Re: slapd not responding to sasl_bind

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, March 21, 2005 1:19 PM +0100 guest01 <guest01@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> I hope this topic is not too OT, I think it is worth a try!
>
> I have following problem, I have a debian woody system with
> ldap authentication for different services, like squid, postfix and
> vpn (pptp and l2tp). Therefor I am using cyrus sasl.
> (ldap 2.1.30, cyrus-sasl 2.1.19)
>
> When I try to use
> "ldapwhoami -Y DIGEST-MD5 -U testuser"
> after a reboot, the system responds very fast and everything
> works fine.
>
> After a pptp-radius-ldap authentication (not via sasl, anonymous bind),
> my server doesn't respond to
> "ldapwhoami -Y DIGEST-MD5 -U testuser", just the output
> "SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started" appears and
> nothing happens ..
> But not always, sometimes it works still after the radius-ldap-authent.
>
> Does anyone have an idea? There is no useable info in the
> logfile. No difference to a working attempt.

Is slapd shut down cleanly before the reboot?  If not, db_recover needs to 
be run prior to restarting slapd.  You may have a corrupt database.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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