[ale] LDAP Authentication Issue

[Sam Davis]

Hey David,

getent passwd returns nothing for both the username and the uid.


Sam


On 05/15/2014 06:05 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Sam Davis <aracthabar at gmail.com 
> <mailto:aracthabar at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello All,
>
>         I have to admit, I really don't know where to begin on this.
>     LDAP has never been my strong suit.  We use LDAP authentication
>     for most of our servers.  We have one user for whom the client
>     machines seem to forget about.  In order to restore his account's
>     functionality, I have to stop and then start nslcd.  Sometimes the
>     client machines do not even realize his account exists, sometimes
>     it knows the account exists, but doesn't assign the correct group
>     memberships.  Other accounts are not impacted by this.  Does
>     anyone have any idea where to even begin looking into an issue
>     like this?
>
>
> I suspect I might know a thing or two about the LDAP system in question...
>
> To confirm:
> 1) Only 1 user is affected?
> 2) They are affected on multiple machines?  Is it all machines?
> 3) Does it happen at the same time across all machines?
> 4) When it occurs on a machine, what does "getent passwd <username>" 
> return?  A password entry, an error, or nothing?  Also might want to 
> try "getent passwd <uid>" to see if the behavior differs.
>
>     Sam
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