[Fedora-directory-users] pam_ldap doesn't follow referrals

[George Holbert]

This is a shot in the dark,
but have you tried specifying:
pam_password exop
..in /etc/ldap.conf?

I suggest this because you mention ldappasswd seems to do the job, and 
ldappasswd uses the password change extended operation to do its work.


Philip Kime wrote:
> Any pointers welcome. This is on RHEL4 and FDS 1.0.2. pam_ldap moans 
> about referrals when the first LDAP server in ldap.conf is a 
> consumer-only. No problem if it's talking to a read-write master.
>  
> # passwd test
> Changing password for user test.
> Enter login(LDAP) password:
> New UNIX password:
> Retype new UNIX password:
> LDAP password information update failed: Referral
>  
> I tried nss_ldap-226 and nss-ldap-253 which comes with an updated 
> pam_ldap. I have
>  
> referrals yes
>  
> in ldap.conf
>  
> I can do a manual ldappasswd update to the consumer and it works, 
> presumably referring to a writable master ok (thought I can't see 
> anything about referrals in the ldappasswd debugging output, nor 
> nothing in the master logs).
>  
> PK
>
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