LDAP server broken after upgrade

Tim Wunder tim at thewunders.org
Sun Aug 10 11:35:51 PDT 2008


On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:00:04 pm Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> 
wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >>I've just upgraded a server which provides NFS & OpenLDAP
> >>authentication from Fedora 7 to Fedora9.  The upgrade of the OS went
> >>smoothly, however LDAP appears to be semi-broken.
> >>
> >>While I can authenticate any user, if I attempt to login as that user, I
> >> see: $ su - lfriedman
> >>id: cannot find name for user ID 3215
> >>id: cannot find name for group ID 3215
> >>id: cannot find name for user ID 3215
> >>[I have no name!@spare ~]$
> >>
> >>All of this worked fine before the upgrade, so I'm kinda lost &
> >>confused on what could be wrong now.  Any LDAP experts have any
> >>suggestions?
> >
> > I would check the /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/*ldap*/ldap.conf files to see
> > if they were changed during the upgrade (look for ldap.rpmsave files for
> > the old copies).  Check also for an /etc/ldap.secret files which should
> > have 600 perms.  Do similar checks on /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.
>
> I should have mentioned that I checked that first.  Everything is
> world readable.
>

Not that I know anything about LDAP, but world readable is not 600 perms. 
IIRC, doesn't sshd_config need to be 600 and not 644?

Just pointing out the obvious...

Tim

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