== well, I decided to turn off the nscd completely, while I'm testing. == GT: Pls run nscd, without it LDAP name service may not work, after running nscd, check if "id testdba" shows the expected result, you may add "debug" keyword to all lines in /etc/pam.conf to observe all possible /var/adm/messages for "sshd" processing. GT: You also need to zero into FDS access and errors log files for useful clues, show us some of the access log details if possible. === I have them in the ldap.client.file but the default profile looks like this: # default, profile, composers.foo.com dn: cn=default,ou=profile,dc=composers,dc=foo,dc=com defaultSearchBase: dc=composers,dc=foo,dc=com authenticationMethod: simple followReferrals: TRUE bindTimeLimit: 2 profileTTL: 43200 searchTimeLimit: 30 objectClass: top objectClass: DUAConfigProfile defaultServerList: 149.85.70.17 credentialLevel: proxy cn: default defaultSearchScope: one Am I missing anything? I don't have serviceSearchDescriptor but I think it should chain ou=People+defaultSearchBase, right? === GT: Use Fedord Management Console to add the three SSDs into the "default" profile, just right click and edit its properties, add/edit attributes, the bindTimeLimit of 2 seconds is too low, you may want to up it to 10 seconds. serviceSearchDescriptor: passwd: ou=People,dc=composers,dc=foo,dc=com?one serviceSearchDescriptor: group: ou=group,dc=composers,dc=foo,dc=com?one serviceSearchDescriptor: shadow: ou=People,dc=composers,dc=foo,dc=com?one bindTimeLimit: 10 GT: Make sure on top of DNS, you have 149.85.70.17 and LDAP Server hostname in `hostname`.`domainname` format in /etc/hosts, there should be an "hosts: files dns" in /etc/nsswitch.conf, it should not be "hosts: ldap" === debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/identity debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive Password: LDAP Password: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive Password: And notice it's asking me for a separate ldap password. What's up with that? === GT: IIRC "Password:" is the prompting of pam_unix_xxxx.so.1 auth module "LDAP Password:" is the prompting of pam_ldap.so.1 auth module, when first pass failed, 2nd pass continued. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 6006 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20050901/9a1e9cff/attachment.bin