Re: Login errors after network change

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On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:07 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > yes, I can see what you mean
> >
> > truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us 'old-timers'
> > would turn off NetworkManager, turn on 'network' put 'ONBOOT=yes' in the
> > configuration and be done with it.
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Craig
> 
> :)  It was an interesting exercise though...
> 
> My first assumption was that selinux was the culprit. A search of the
> archives showed that a few people had been bitten by an selinux policy
> issue. After fussing around with selinux for a while, before
> eventually turning it off completely, I realized it had nothing to do
> with the issue.
> 
> I agree about NetworkManager and usually turn it off straightaway.
> 
> Anyhoo, I'm leaning towards this being a bug but can be convinced
> otherwise. To reproduce:
> 1) Boot with the Desktop Edition F12 CD.
> 2) Double click the Install to HD icon and accept all defaults.
> 3) Reboot.
> 4) Configure timezone and authentication to LDAP (enable caching and
> local auth is sufficient).
> 5) Login as a regular user then su to root.
> 6) Launch the system-config-network tool.
> 
> If you run updates at this point, as I did, your initial reboot will
> leave you at a login screen that won't work. The system will timeout
> trying to access the LDAP servers.
> 
> For a newbie to Fedora this would be frustrating.
----
something like this in your /etc/ldap.conf should help with timeouts...

timelimit 30
bind_timelimit 30
bind_policy soft
nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus

Craig


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