Hi Matt,<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much.<div><br></div><div>I got rid of both the errors by <div><br></div><div>1. Installing libpam-foreground</div><div>2. By changing the uri in /etc/ldap.conf from ldap to ldaps</div>
<div><br></div><div>One last thing is remaining now....</div><div><br></div><div>When tried &quot;ldapsearch -ZZ&quot;, it asks for some password. When provided with the password, it didn&#39;t accept it (the same password what I created during dpkg --configure slapd)</div>
<div><br></div><div><div># ldapsearch -ZZ</div><div>SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started</div><div>Please enter your password:</div><div>ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Invalid credentials (49)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Asimananda</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Matt Kassawara <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:battery@writeme.com">battery@writeme.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Installing libpam-foreground or removing the reference to it in /etc/pam.d/common-session will clear up the first error.  The second error probably stems from misconfiguration in /etc/ldap.conf... particularly with how PAM tries to contact your LDAP server (uri, port, ssl/tls directives).<br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/20 Asimananda Mohanty <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:asimananda.mohanty@gmail.com" target="_blank">asimananda.mohanty@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">Hi Michael,</span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">The command mentioned by you is running fine and it doesn&#39;t show any error.</span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">


<br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">That means that simple bind works fine. <br><br><b>By stating &quot;I am able to login to the server&quot;, I meant that I am able to establish an ssh session (via putty) with the server by providing user id and password. In that case, I don&#39;t really understand the error while logging in by that user id.</b></span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">


<br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">Thanks for your support.</span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)"><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">
<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 255)">-Asimananda</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2009/7/20 Michael Ströder <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:michael@stroeder.com" target="_blank">michael@stroeder.com</a>&gt;</span><br>

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<div>Asimananda Mohanty wrote:<div><div><br>
&gt; I think the LDAP in current form should solve my purpose.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Currently I have client and server on the same machine. I have created<br>
&gt; one user in LDAP namely asimananda and I am able to login to the server<br>
&gt; by the same too.<br>
<br>
</div></div></div><div><div>What does &quot;I am able to login to the server&quot; mean exactly. Did you test<br>
with ldapwhoami -x -D &lt;bind-DN of asimananda&gt; -W whether simple bind works?<br>
<br>
&gt; *PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_foreground.so):<br>
<div>&gt; /lib/security/pam_foreground.so: cannot open shared object file: No such<br>
&gt; file or directory<br>
&gt; PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_foreground.so<br>
&gt; pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can&#39;t contact LDAP server<br>
&gt; pam_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...<br>
&gt; pam_ldap: ldap_simple_bind Can&#39;t contact LDAP server<br>
&gt; Successful su for asimananda by root<br>
&gt; + pts/3 root:asimananda<br>
</div>&gt; pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user asimananda by root(uid=0)*<br>
<br>
Looks like an setup error in your PAM setup. Check the ldap.conf related<br>
to the pam_ldap module. I don&#39;t know Ubuntu so I can&#39;t help here.<br>
<br>
Ciao, Michael.<br>
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