Hi I've enabled TLS and am getting below error msg's in /var/log/secure file on Fedora 9, which is my newly configured FDS , if disable TLS , am able to ssh onto the FDS server and with TLS enabled unable to login via ssh. sshd[5487]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable sshd[5487]: Invalid user test3 from 192.168.1.1 sshd[5488]: input_userauth_request: invalid user test3 sshd[5487]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable sshd[5487]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass; user unknown sshd[5487]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.1.1 sshd[5487]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable sshd[5487]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): error retrieving information about user test3 sshd[5487]: Failed password for invalid user test3 from 192.168.1.1 port 38489 ssh2 /etc/ldap.conf file on Fedora 9, (FDS server ) shows as :- base dc=true,dc=co,dc=uk timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft nss_reconnect_tries 2 idle_timelimit 3600 pam_filter objectclass=posixAccount nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus,radvd,tomcat,radiusd,news,mailman,nscd,gdm,polk ituser ssl start_tls tls_checkpeer yes tls_cacertfile /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.asc pam_password md5 uri ldap://127.0.0.1/ tls_cacertdir /etc/openldap/cacerts # authconfig --test caching is disabled nss_files is always enabled nss_compat is disabled nss_db is disabled nss_hesiod is disabled hesiod LHS = "" hesiod RHS = "" nss_ldap is enabled LDAP+TLS is enabled LDAP server = "ldap://127.0.0.1/" LDAP base DN = "dc=true,dc=co,dc=uk" """" """""" pam_ldap is enabled LDAP+TLS is enabled LDAP server = "ldap://127.0.0.1/" LDAP base DN = "dc=true,dc=co,dc=uk" "" """ """ "" pam_cracklib is enabled (try_first_pass retry=3) pam_passwdqc is disabled () pam_access is disabled () pam_mkhomedir is disabled () Always authorize local users is disabled () Authenticate system accounts against network services is disabled Please advice on how to resolve, so am able to ssh onto FDS server running TLS. I've already run setupssl2.sh script from Thanks in advance.. Regards Dharmin _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_family_safety_072008