It takes a long time until it fails.
Sorry for the re post.
I'll try what you tell me.
Regards,
Nicolás Cánepa
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Paul-Erik Törrönen escribió:
Nicolas Canepa wrote:
Hi,
I'm using openLDAP to authenticate users in my network, the problem I
have is that when the LDAP server is down or unreachable, I cannot
login as root, although is a local user, that's a complication to me
when I
Cannot log on at all, or does logon timeout?
One reason could be that the logon process may indirectly try to connect
to the ldap-server (through some library functions or other) and it then
waits for timeout during which the logon process itself timeouts.
Try using the following parameters in /etc/ldap.conf:
timelimit 30
bind_timelimit 30
bind_policy soft
These were mentioned earlier in the 'OpenLDAP user authentication'
thread by Craig White.
HTH,
Poltsi
