LDAP mess up

[Bill Heese]

Ed,

Thank you so much... Worked like a charm... I owe you one.

Bill


On 3/14/04 9:45 AM, "Ed Wilts" <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:41:14AM -0500, Bill Heese wrote:
>> Where does the app reside? And is it command line. I can't get an x session
>> started.
> 
> It's in /usr/bin.  It's also known as authconfig.  I just tested it and
> it works fine from the command line - it does the old curses-type
> display if you don't have X running.
> 
>       .../Ed
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> On 3/14/04 9:11 AM, "Ed Wilts" <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:48:37PM -0500, Bill Heese wrote:
>>>> I was trying to configure LDAP this evening using the GUI. When I logged
>>>> out
>>>> I was unable to log back into the box. I could even use the local root
>>>> account to get into the box.
>>>> 
>>>> I am able to login using root in single user mode.
>>>> 
>>>> Please can anyone tell me which files I need to fix to get access back to
>>>> my
>>>> box.
>>> 
>>> Run redhat-config-authentication and turn ldap back off.  When I played
>>> with it briefly, I turned ldap authentication on but I tested it with
>>> another session without logging off first.  I discovered all I needed to
>>> do was to make sure the ldap server was started.