[K12OSN] Cant login on ldap server as root

[big at santaz.dk]

> big at santaz.dk wrote:
>>>big at santaz.dk wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi there i have a BIG problem. I cant login on my ldap server as root
>>>> or
>>>>anybody
>>>>
>>>>If i try to login as root it says roots home path is on /home/root if i
>>>>go
>>>>past this it tells me that systemadministrator has disabled my account
>>>>??
>>>>
>>>>Anyone ??
>>>>
>>>>Jesper
>>>>In deep shit...
>>>>
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>>>It's not the nscd problem again. I seem to remember I had this problem
>>> on
>>>my test server, I used
>>>webmin to restart nscd and it was OK.
>>>
>>>Have a look back through the archive for nscd fault's, I think there is
>>> a
>>>new version now that is
>>>more reliable or just disable it.
>>>
>>>If you don't have webmin I'm not sure how you'd restart it.
>>>
>>>Brian
>>
>>
>> Thank god for webmin, i typed in my root passwd again and now i could
>> login.
>>
>> But in webmins ldap config i noticed that root's homedir was
>> /home/root??
>>
>> Do i need nscd ??
>>
>> Jesper
>>
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>
> Glad it helped, I like webmin a lot saves so much work.
>
> Lots of discussion about this recently. It helps speed up ldap queries by
> caching results but if
> your running LDAP on the same box as LDAP it wouldn't improve things much
> (I don't think)
>
> As for Webmin saying that root's home dir is /home/root, not sure about
> this best to see if anyone
> else can comment on this. I think Jim K has done a lot of work on using
> webmin with Ldap/Samba.
>
> Brian

So am i, and thanks for a quick reply :-) I have played a little with some
ssh connection from home in this weekend, and suddenly  i couldn't connect
with ssh, just thought that it just was some default config on sshd
blocking for to many root logins, but it did say that roots homedir was
/home/root. Maybe sshd looked the root account, and then ssh tried to auth
from ldap ??

I have turned off the nscd daemon for now, and it looks like its running
just fine

Jesper