[K12OSN] Cant login on ldap server as root

[Brian Chivers]

big at santaz.dk wrote:
>>big at santaz.dk wrote:
>>
>>>>big at santaz.dk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi there i have a BIG problem. I cant login on my ldap server as root
>>>>>or
>>>>>anybody
>>>>>
>>>>>If i try to login as root it says roots home path is on /home/root if i
>>>>>go
>>>>>past this it tells me that systemadministrator has disabled my account
>>>>>??
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyone ??
>>>>>
>>>>>Jesper
>>>>>In deep shit...
>>>>>
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>>>>It's not the nscd problem again. I seem to remember I had this problem
>>>>on
>>>>my test server, I used
>>>>webmin to restart nscd and it was OK.
>>>>
>>>>Have a look back through the archive for nscd fault's, I think there is
>>>>a
>>>>new version now that is
>>>>more reliable or just disable it.
>>>>
>>>>If you don't have webmin I'm not sure how you'd restart it.
>>>>
>>>>Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>Thank god for webmin, i typed in my root passwd again and now i could
>>>login.
>>>
>>>But in webmins ldap config i noticed that root's homedir was
>>>/home/root??
>>>
>>>Do i need nscd ??
>>>
>>>Jesper
>>>
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>>Glad it helped, I like webmin a lot saves so much work.
>>
>>Lots of discussion about this recently. It helps speed up ldap queries by
>>caching results but if
>>your running LDAP on the same box as LDAP it wouldn't improve things much
>>(I don't think)
>>
>>As for Webmin saying that root's home dir is /home/root, not sure about
>>this best to see if anyone
>>else can comment on this. I think Jim K has done a lot of work on using
>>webmin with Ldap/Samba.
>>
>>Brian
> 
> 
> So am i, and thanks for a quick reply :-) I have played a little with some
> ssh connection from home in this weekend, and suddenly  i couldn't connect
> with ssh, just thought that it just was some default config on sshd
> blocking for to many root logins, but it did say that roots homedir was
> /home/root. Maybe sshd looked the root account, and then ssh tried to auth
> from ldap ??
> 
> I have turned off the nscd daemon for now, and it looks like its running
> just fine
> 
> Jesper
> 
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Nice to help someone, rather than to ask for help ??

Brian


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