Comment 17 for bug 571057

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:57:36 -0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Re: the mention of symptoms in comment #12 above: My symptom was that I
> could not log in at all, and in existing sessions, sudo wouldn't work
> etc. I store user information in LDAP, with just system users in
> /etc/passwd etc., so luckily I could still log in as root to fix this.

Ah, good point. I have been working with a test system not configured
for LDAP authentication, so I didn't check out that functionality.

When you say "still log in as root to fix this", did you have to make
additional edits after you got slapd running again (as you mentioned in
your original problem description)? That is, were you locked out just
because slapd wasn't running, and then back to normal again once you got
slapd restarted, or did you have to go back and fix the permission
settings before LDAP authentication started working again?

(If you did have to fix permissions, what exactly did you have to change
to get that part working?)

      Nathan