Hi Sean! On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Sean Carolan wrote: > I'm testing the 389 directory server in our lab environment before > moving it to production and have noticed that occasionally it won't > let me log in. I have to restart the nscd service before it will > authenticate my user. Here's the error in /var/log/secure: > > Mar 22 09:59:31 watcher sshd[18109]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): > authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= > rhost=10.2.3.100 user=scarolan > Mar 22 09:59:31 watcher sshd[18109]: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as > user "uid=scarolan,ou=People, dc=companyname, dc=com" (Invalid > credentials) > > Has anyone else experienced something like this? Any idea what causes > it? I want to make sure our LDAP authentication is rock-solid > reliable before moving it into the production environment. What version(s) of nscd are you running? What OS/Distribution(s) are you running it on?