Thanks Richard for replying. I actually did the strace on slapd a while ago and it went through with a lot of info and at the end it put out the same NSS error message! One thing I noticed was that when I did a clean re-installation followed by the setup, when I picked the user and group root instead of fedora-ds, the start-slapd started as root without any problem! However, the httpd wouldn't start. If however, during the setup, I pick any other non-root user, say, fedora-ds for the directory server, the setup would fail with NSS error, at that point it would hang! If I do the setup as fedora-ds user, it goes through fine. Everything works ok. So, after that, I did a clean re-installation as root, and did the setup as recommended by the documentation -- the directory server runs as user/group fedora-ds as it supposed to. So, now, the directory server runs fine. The admin-server, however gives the PSET failure error. On the other hand, if I start the admin server as fedora-ds user: (e.g., su fedora-ds ./start-admin), then, it starts without any problem! This is one of those weird cases that has been baffling! So, at this point I'm not sure the cause of the PSET error. On a side note, I had similar question asked by Thomas King on how to create users outside the NetscapeRoot branch via the "User and Group" tab in the management Console. I noticed you mentioned selecting "Change Directory" after going to the user menu. I tried that, but, I don't seem to have the "Change Directory" option anywhere on the menu. I'm runing FDS-1.0.4 on RHEL5. Thanks, SWA SWA
