Authenticating via LDAP to Active Directory

[Nigel Wade]

Stuart Sears wrote:
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> Nigel Wade wrote:
>> Davis, Jared Scott wrote:
>>> In /var/log/messages:
>>> "sshd: pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can't contact LDAP server"
>>>
>> So PAM can't talk to the LDAP server. Double check the values in
>> /etc/ldap.conf. ldapsearch uses /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and PAM uses
>> /etc/ldap.conf so check the sym-link.
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> just a point: these are not symbolic links. The two files have similar,
> but definitley different syntax. So the file you want to check is
> /etc/ldap.conf

The OP said "slink", which I presumed to mean they were symbolically 
linked. I do this, and it works perfectly ok.


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