Hello -

I hope I can explain this correctly. I have a LAMP server (with MediaWiki) that was working until I ruined it.

I wanted MW to authenticate via LDAP, but my problem is a little more.

The eth0 is disabled at boot, and I must manually enable eth0 each time I reboot. (I thought it a minor inconvenience, and I would figure out a fix for that later...)

For ldap, I followed the directions here:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LDA...ntication.html
to enable ldap authentication from a remote server. The last direction was to reboot to enable ldap. Which I did. (How dumb!)

The problem that resulted: authenticate using the network, but no working network connection.

The GUI doesn't fully load, though I can get a terminal window and log in.
There are two error messages:

and

ifconfig eth0 returns

Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02040:7E:7D
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RXbytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

What is the location of the file for enabling eth0 ?
And /Or how can I disable ldap authentication?

Am I heading in the right direction to repair?

Thank you!

Best,
D

How about you supply information about the distro you did this with?



Cheers,
Tink

Thanks, Tink -

Fedora 8

Best,
D

The config files for your ethernet adapters eth*, by default in Fedora, are located at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

The files are named ifcfg-eth*

In order to have your eth0 interface enabled at boot, you will need to edit the ONBOOT line in your ifcfg-eth0 file. It will need to look like this:

ONBOOT=yes

Save the changes and restart the machine.

Thank you -

I went to the ifcfg-eth0 file as you said.

ONBOOT=yes

was already in the file. Hmmm..

I looked in /var/log/messages

and saw repeated many times over a period of several minutes

dbus-daemon :nss_ldap :reconnecting to LDAP server
dbus-daemon :nss_ldap :failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://10.1.100.16/ Can't connect to LDAP server

where 10.1.100.16 is our network's (fully working) ldap server.

I would just like to cancel the ldap authentication within the terminal window, and go back to local authentication, I think.

Thanks,
D

Success with disabling ldap!

The log files and the lines for nss_ldap connection failed
sent me to the padl.com site.

I used the command
# authconfig --disableldapauth -- update
# authconfig --disableldap --update

I rebooted, and my machine booted normally!

I still have to look into the NetworkManager Applet, but that will be in a different thread.

Thanks!
D