ports/91806 : net/nss_ldap broken with getpwuid*

[Artem Kazakov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/91806; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Artem Kazakov <kazakov at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, sean at mcneil.com
Cc:  
Subject: ports/91806 : net/nss_ldap broken with getpwuid*
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:15:58 +0900

 Hello! 
 
 Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com>:
 > Recent update of nss_ldap breaks getpwuid* routines.  This is evident with sshd.  Attempting to
 > 
 > ssh localhost
 > Password:
 > Connection to localhost closed by remote host.
 > Connection to localhost closed.
 > 
 > sshd[]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable
 > sshd[]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 501
 > 
 > Reverting to previous version fixes the problem.
 
 Could you please check your nss_ldap.conf file? 
 It looks like, if you set 
 bind_policy soft
 nss_ldap stops working. I do not know the details yet, but I faced the same problem. 
 If you change bind_poicy to hard (as it is by default) everything should work. 
 
 Regards.
 Artem Kazakov.