root authentication problem with LDAP

[Nicolas Canepa]

It takes a long time until it fails.
Sorry for the re post.
I'll try what you tell me.

Regards,
Nicolás Cánepa
ncanepa at fcen.uba.ar
www.ccc.fcen.uba.ar
Teléfono - 4576-3382
CCC - Centro de Comunicación Científica
UBA - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales


Paul-Erik Törrönen escribió:
> Nicolas Canepa wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm using openLDAP to authenticate users in my network, the problem I 
>> have is that when the LDAP server is down or unreachable, I cannot 
>> login as root, although is a local user, that's a complication to me 
>> when I 
> 
> Cannot log on at all, or does logon timeout?
> 
> One reason could be that the logon process may indirectly try to connect 
> to the ldap-server (through some library functions or other) and it then 
> waits for timeout during which the logon process itself timeouts.
> 
> Try using the following parameters in /etc/ldap.conf:
> 
> timelimit 30
> bind_timelimit 30
> bind_policy soft
> 
> These were mentioned earlier in the 'OpenLDAP user authentication' 
> thread by Craig White.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Poltsi
>