On Thursday 22 May 2008 12:13:15 pm you wrote: > Jeffrey D Anderson wrote: > > On Thursday 22 May 2008 11:47:28 am Jeffrey D Anderson wrote: > >> On Thursday 22 May 2008 8:20:22 am you wrote: > >>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:28:11PM +0100, Faye Gibbins wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Has anything relating to how ldap uses ssl changed in the last couple > >>>> of days? > >>>> > >>>> In the last day or so our ldap servers (that are queried though SSL > >>>> and the nss_ldap libs) have stopped working properly. > >>>> > >>>> They do part of the job then die with broken pipe signals (as seen by > >>>> running strace on for example "su"). > >>>> > >>>> This has shown up on both 32 and 64 bit SL5.0 boxes. > >>> > >>> We're getting this as well since the update this mornig to > >>> nss_ldap-253-12.el5.x86_64. > >>> > >>> It looks like libnss_ldap.so.2 is now linked again SElinux. Is that > >>> part of the problem? > >>> > >>> -jkl > >> > >> I am getting this on SL5.0 and SL5.1. > >> > >> We use LDAP with TLS for authentication for dozens of workstations, and > >> it is totally broken at the moment. > >> > >> I've done a 'yum clean && yum update' to see if Troy's fixed packages > >> from this morning rectify the situation, but still nothing. > >> > >> The symptoms are that users cannot login. They type their password at > >> KDM or at a text VT, the password apparently is authenticated, but the > >> screen flashes and they are returned to the login screen. > >> Also, I cannot 'su' to any users. If I try, as root for example, > >> 'su SOMEUSER' I am just brought back to the root bash prompt. 'whoami' > >> verifies that I am still root, not su'd to SOMEUSER. > >> > >> finger and id both successfully lookup the user information, but for > >> some reason su, login, KDM, do not successfully log people in. I've > >> verified this on a number of different boxes. I've also rebooted the > >> LDAP server without solving the problem. > > > > Bad for to reply to myself, but I wanted to add that reverting to > > nss_ldap-253-5.el5.i386.rpm cleared up the problem for me, so there is > > definitely some kind of critical bug in the updated nss_ldap. > > Hi Jeff, > I have been reading all of this with interest because I hate it when things > break. Can you try updating nss_ldap using CentOS's rpm, and see if it > still breaks. I want to see if it is us or RedHat who has the problem. > > Troy
Hi Troy: I've looked all over and cannot seem to find a CentOS mirror that has the recent nss_ldap update -- nss_ldap-253-12.el5 I wonder if they are sitting on it for some reason, or if it has been withdrawn? -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808
