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?
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