On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Mark wrote: > Thank you for the response. > I checked permissions, bob can read (with less) the file. > I also checked /etc/pam.d that one and system-auth in there were 700 and 600 > and I changed that to 755 and 644 (not sure what they are supposed to be). > But it didn't fix it either... It still sounds to me like a filesystem permissions problem. Can you check the permissions on /etc/ldap.conf [1], and if that isn't the source of the problem, run 'strace -s 128 -e open getent passwd bob' and see if there are any errors present? HTH, Nalin