topic Re: RHEL5.3 bindpw in Operating System - Linux

RHEL5.3 bindpw

KuehnUl — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:08:47 GMT

Hallo,

The server is not a member of a windows domain. But we have an AD user-account. With the clear bind password in the /etc/ldap.conf, the communication to the AD-Server work well and the login into the rhel-server with the AD account, too.

1.) We tried to crypt the password in the /etc/ldap.conf with,

bindpw {crypt} xxxx...
and
bindpw {MD5} yyyyy...

Both doesn't work.

2.) We removed the bindpw entry in the config file and wrote the clear password into the /etc/ldap.secret (600) file. It doesn't work too.

Do you have some ideas for us?

Thanks for your support, Uli

Re: RHEL5.3 bindpw

Ivan Ferreira — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:54:30 GMT

If using /etc/ldap.secret, it must have a newline at the end of the secret.

Try that.

Re: RHEL5.3 bindpw

KuehnUl — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:21:52 GMT

Hallo Ivan,

a newline at the end of the ldap.secret doesn't solved the problem.

Uli

Re: RHEL5.3 bindpw

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:23:19 GMT

Shalom,

There could be other problems in the /etc/ldap.secret file or other configuration files. Check to see if one of them has been replaced by the upgrade (if that is what you did) to RHEL 5.3.

Also check RH web site for errata or possibly a new rpm related to this error.

Please tell us more about your upgrade path. Hardware, system type. Whether it was a fresh cold install or an upgrade with yum.

SEP