All,
My environment is:
RedHat Linux 8.0
OpenLDAP 4.1.25
BDB 2.1.17
I have 4 servers with the LDAP server installed on 1; the LDAP client on all 4.
I was in the process of installing the LDAP replication server on one of the remaining 3 three machines.
I had shut down slapd during the conversion as recommended by several sources. As I did not complete the conversion, I just logged off from the LDAP server at the end of the day.
The next morning, no one could log on to any of the 4 servers with any account (including root) and all $#&& broke loose (it didn't help that I was off site). Therefore, I have the following questions:
1) Was this behavior predictable? Since the system accounts were defined in the /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files and since I had configured /etc/nsswitch.conf to point to files first, I had assumed there would be no impact.
2) Should I configure the LDAP client and server on the same machine? I did my initial testing in this state and had no prior impacts.
3) How do you "uninstall" the LDAP client on a machine quickly? We ended up manually editing files and running authconfig; probably not the most effective way.
4) Is there a sample of how to setup the /etc/rc.d/rc?.d files to start up LDAP upon reboot? Since I was in a test mode, I hadn't done this so rebooting the server didn't help.
Thanx,
Joe
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