severity 381153 important merge 381153 380658 thanks On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:15:39 +0100 Paul LeoNerd Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: slapd > Version: 2.3.24-2 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > I have users stored in LDAP, using libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap. The > upgrade process to install 2.3.24-2 tries to stop slapd, then run > "useradd" to create the required user to run as, then start it again. > Because my user list is in LDAP, this all breaks. slapd is now > unstartable. > > Furthermore, no user can log in to any terminal, nor can any existing > shells "su", or "sudo". PAM-ldap becomes unusable. Fortunately for me, > root is still in /etc/{passwd,shadow}, so I was able to ssh as root to > fix it. Were that not the case, the only way out of this is a hard > reboot, passing > > init=/bin/sh > > to GRUB/LILO, and manually fixing things from there. > > I believe this total failure of ability to log in justifies the critical > classification, but I accept that it only happens in the non-default > case of passwd/group being LDAP-based. > > Please check next time the bug page of slapd again, there are already 3 bug reports with this problem available: #379728, #380620 and #380658 This is also not really a bug in OpenLDAP bug in libnss-ldap which has a few different settings that can cause this kind of breakage. Regards, Matthijs Mohlmann
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