Ok so I've been trying to setup a samba PDC using ldap as its backend and its been a bit crazy up to this point.

The machine I'm trying to login to is a RHEL v4 box. Going with the howto found on idealx website ( http://www.idealx.com/downloads/samba3-ldap-howto.pdf ), I've edited the /etc/ldap.conf and various files. Still no luck. I get an error in the /var/log/secure about pam not able to find any information about my user. I went and edited the /etc/pam.d files to include pam_ldap.so, but still not luck, though now when I try to login, it asks for two passwords.

Here is the acl from slapd.conf:

access to attrs=userPassword,sambaNTPassword,sambaLMPassword,sambaPwdLastSet,sambaPwdMustChange
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=nssldap,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by self write
by anonymous auth
by * none

access to attrs=objectClass,entry,homeDirectory,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,memberUid
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by * read

access to attrs=cn,sambaLMPassword,sambaNTPassword,sambaPwdLastSet,sambaLogonTime,sambaLogoffTime,sambaKickoff Time,sambaPwdCanChange,sambaPwdMustChange,sambaAcctFlags,displayName,sambaHomePath,sambaHomeDrive,sa mbaLogonScript,sambaProfilePath,description,sambaUserWorkstations,sambaPrimaryGroupSID,sambaDomainNa me,sambaMungedDial,sambaBadPasswordCount,sambaBadPasswordTime,sambaPasswordHistory,sambaLogonHours,s ambaSID,sambaSIDList,sambaTrustFlags,sambaGroupType,sambaNextRid,sambaNextGroupRid,sambaNextUserRid, sambaAlgorithmicRidBase,sambaShareName,sambaOptionName,sambaBoolOption,sambaIntegerOption,sambaStrin gOption,sambaStringListoption,sambaPrivilegeList
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by self read
by * none

access to dn.base="dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu"
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by * none
# probably need "by * read" for solaris

access to dn="ou=people,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu"
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by * none
access to dn="ou=group,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu"
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by * none
access to dn="ou=machines,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu"
by dn="cn=samba,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by dn="cn=smbldap-tools,ou=DSA,dc=cbi,dc=utsa,dc=edu" write
by * none
access to *
by self write
by * read

I'm at my wits end. The setup was going good at this point, but then this. Any ideas?

Thanks

Look for a pam configuration that looks similar to this
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#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_unix2.so
account required pam_unix2.so
password required pam_pwcheck.so
password required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass use_authtok
password required pam_make.so /var/yp
session required pam_unix2.so
[code]

This is from a NIS howto, so it is different, but notice the "use_first_pass". If that option was missing, you would be prompted for your password twice.

If you enter a password twice, do you get in?

One other thing to check is the log for SELinux, if you have it. Maybe the SELinux acl permissions on the config files are set properly on the pam configurations or the ldap configs. Maybe not, but its work a check.

I'll let someone else familiar with ldap scan through your ldap config. Maybe he/she will find something there. I imagine that if the line that tries to retrieve the information from ldap fails; and the next one checks for a password on the local machine (pam_unix2) but is missing the "use_first_pass" option; you would be asked to enter the password again. So you may have a problem with both ldap and pam configurations.

This is so funny its not. After an exhaustive search by my coworker, we figured out what the problem was. Having "cn" in the acl was not letting me log in, it seems. Once that was out of the config, poof! It works. Thanks for the help anyways.