Hi all! I am happy to see that the communty have got a good-looking directory server. Soon, I hope I can throw away our M$ active directory, and run fedora directory instead, but I am having some issue, authenticating linux desktops. So, here's what I have: Fedora Directory installed on CentOS 4.0 (redhat EL clone) Ran the typical install (after reading redhat directory install manual) I can successfully login to the web-admin interface, and add users (after binding as Directory Manager). Due to a java error, I cannot use the console, but I rather use GQ (a gnome LDAP tool). I can bind (as Directory Manager), and add/remove stuff. So, here's what I continued doing: Added a user (using the webinterface). Added objectclass posixAccount to this user (using GQ) Turning to my desktop, running Ubuntu Hoary and Openldap, I set it up using this ldap config: host ldap.mydomain.com base dc=mydomain,dc=com ldap_version 3 timelimit 30 pam_filter objectclass=posixAccount pam_login_attribute uid ssl no #ssl start_tls #tls_checkpeer no pam_password ssha I've tried to use ssl (and tls_checkpeer no), and no ssl.... nothing works. In my log on the fedora directory server, I see the connection, and it first tries to find the posixAccount, and returns no error. Then it looks for shadowAccount, and returns no error (after I added that objectclass as well). The client worked fine, authenticating with my previous openldap server... and I can't see why I doesn't authenticate with my new fedora server. Help would be highly appreciated :) /Thomas -- LinProfs Phone: +31703521193 & +31652572454 Web: www.linprofs.com & www.linprofs.nl Email: thomas at linprofs.com - "Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking"