Re: [gentoo-user] LDAP: Slapd fails asking itself while startup

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 19. Okt 2007, 21:09:59 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
> I just set up LDAP authentication and it works fine.
> However, when running the init script there comes up an
> error that clutters up my syslog with a lot of useless error
> messages.
>
>   @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.38 (Oct 18 2007 22:12:26) $ 	root@myhost:/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.3.38/work/openldap-2.3.38/servers/slapd
>   nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server
>   nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server
>   nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fldapi_sock/: Can't contact LDAP server
>   ...
>   nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable
>   WARNING: No dynamic config support for database ldbm.
>   slapd starting
>
> I found out that the Gentoo init script activates the
> options "-u ldap -g ldap". Without them, the error messages
> do not appear. Therefore I suppose the slapd daemon tries to
> obtain passwd/shadow information for ldap via nss_ldap. At
> least when I say "compat" in nsswitch.conf, the error
> message doesn't appear as well.
>
> The thing I really wonder about is that the lines in
> nsswitch.conf say
>
>   passwd:    files ldap
>   shadow:    files ldap
>   group:     files ldap
>
> The files should be searched first. The "ldap" information
> is present in all three of them. I even tried to chown the
> shadow file to ldap but this didn't save me from
> encountering the weird messages either.

I detected I have a machine where this didn't happen. Then I
upgraded from glibc-2.5-r4 to glibc-2.6.1 ...

Could this be a real bug in glibc? Does anybody experience
the same behaviour?

Thanks in advance,

Bertram


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