Issues while authenticating a user over openLDAP using PAM_ldap [cured]

[Noah]

see below

Andy Harrison wrote:
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> On 8/9/07, Noah  wrote:
>> running FreeBSD 6.2 Stable
>>
>> we have openLDAP installed on a server called access1.  Users on access1
>> appear to not be able to ssh to access1.  The ssh authentication method
>> uses PAM ldap.  PAM_ldap reports "Invalid credentials" in /var/log/messages
>>
>> We have another server called access2 that authenticates to the the ldap
>> server running on access1.  those users log in via ssh without issue on
>> access2.
>>
>> I am trying to track down what is broken.  I am not even sure how to
>> receive verbose logging from PAM and/or PAM_ldap.  Any assistance is
>> much appreciated.
>>
>>
> 
> What about your nsswitch.conf file?



thanks Andy - that was it!

I matched the lines of access1's nsswitch.conf to access2's 
nsswitch.conf file

and things are fine!



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