Authentication and group/username resolving problem

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Mark wrote:
> Thank you for the response.
> I checked permissions, bob can read (with less) the file.
> I also checked /etc/pam.d that one and system-auth in there were 700 and 600
> and I changed that to 755 and 644 (not sure what they are supposed to be).
> But it didn't fix it either...

It still sounds to me like a filesystem permissions problem.  Can you
check the permissions on /etc/ldap.conf [1], and if that isn't the
source of the problem, run 'strace -s 128 -e open getent passwd bob' and
see if there are any errors present?

HTH,

Nalin