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Re: ldap/libnss/ssh: (remote) login stops working after some time



Ron Johnson [Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:39:07AM -0500]:
> On 2009-09-03 05:02, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> >- login fails for root (who is not in ldap) and ldap users
> >
> >- I cannot login locally as root!
> 
> I thought you said you couldn't *remotely* log in as root.

It fails for *both* ways until I login *locally* as a ldap user.

> >! It works again (i.e. ssh and local root), if I login locally as an LDAP user.
> >
> >- It takes about 30 days to occur (or different, not yet sure)
> [snip]
> >Aug  8 22:05:01 ikr3 CRON[19505]: (pam_krb5): none: ignoring low-UID user (0 < 1001)
> 
> Does the local root login failure start only after remote root
> logins fail?

Yes, afaics it's the same time (i.e. normally local root access is
possible and it also works again, after I logged in as a LDAP user).

> I'd work around this issue by not allowing remote root logins.

I'm sorry, how should this fix not being able to login via ssh at all?

Sincerly,

Nico

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