Re: Client connect issues with OpenLDAP 2.3 on RHEL 4

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Monday 21 July 2008 19:33:42 Martin Benson wrote:
> I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4.4 installation that runs OpenLDAP 2.2
> using the provided Red Hat rpm's. I want to upgrade this to OpenLDAP 2.3
> and have created an LDAP server using the packages from
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel4/openldap/i386 . The problem I have
> is that I cannot get a client to attach or query the server.

You need to provide more details.

> I have
> installed the openldap2.3-clients

openldap2.3-clients is not necessary, unless you require features that are not 
available in the 2.2. clients (some extended operations).

> and openldap2.3 packages and the server
> with logging enabled does not even show a connection.

Since my packages enable logging to /var/log/ldap2.3/ldap.log by default, if 
you have a decent log level, and you aren't seeing connections, then something 
else is wrong.

> I suspect it is a
> problem with the nss_ldap package that comes bundled with RHEL 4.4.

I doubt it. My packages are intended to be installed in parallel with the 
RHEL4 packages, and have no impact on any packages supplied by RHEL. I run 
nss_ldap from RHEL4 (4.6) on all my production LDAP servers that run my 2.3 
packages, without problems.

> I cannot compile the software on my system as it is a partial install for
> clients of ours and does not get delivered with compiler software.

It's unlikely that compiling the software would make a difference.

> Does anyone know of an updated rpm for nss_ldap to be compatible with
> openldap2.3 and RHEL 4?

It is unnecessary, the nss_ldap built against RHEL's 2.2 libraries is 
adequate.

Maybe you would like to provide some configuration details, some example 
output when you use openldap utilities to search your server etc.


Regards,
Buchan