LDAP mess up

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Sun Mar 14 14:45:30 UTC 2004


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.

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