Bingo, it was ldap. Conf! Thank you for your help Nalin, I tried for weeks to figure this out and nobody could (would) help me... MARK > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nalin Dahyabhai > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:44 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Authentication and group/username resolving problem > > > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >