Openldap gurus:

Here is my setup,

LDAPSERVERS: I have two ldap servers running RHEL7.2 and openldap 2.4.40. Both servers are configured with multi-master replication. Ldaps is enabled and a ppolicy applied.

LDAPCLIENT: My ldap client is running RHEL7.2 as well, sssd 1.13.0, and openldap client 2.4.40. 

I have been troubleshooting this problem for a while and can’t figure out why everytime I try to login to an ldap client with a test user account the slapd service on only one of my ldap servers gets killed.

Both getent and ldapsearch return the expected information when ran on the ldap client:
ldapclient ~]# getent passwd realtest
realtest:*:1004:312:Liz RealTest:/home/real:/bin/tcsh

ldapclient ~]# ldapsearch -x -s sub -b 'ou=People,dc=cluster,dc=sec312' '(uid=realtest)'
# extended LDIF
#
# LDAPv3
# base <ou=People,dc=cluster,dc=sec312> with scope subtree
# filter: (uid=realtest)
# requesting: ALL
#

# realtest, People, cluster.sec312
dn: uid=realtest,ou=People,dc=cluster,dc=sec312
gidNumber: 312
objectClass: account
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
uid: realtest
loginShell: /bin/tcsh
homeDirectory: /home/real
cn: Liz RealTest
uidNumber: 1004

# search result
search: 2
result: 0 Success

# numResponses: 2
# numEntries: 1

LDAP SERVER /VAR/LOG/SECURE:
serverA journal: Suppressed 19192 messages from /system.slice/slapd.service
serverA journal: Suppressed 8449 messages from /system.slice/slapd.service
serverA systemd: slapd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
serverA systemd: Unit slapd.service entered failed state.
serverA systemd: slapd.service failed.

LDAP CLIENT  /VAR/LOG/SECURE:
ldapclient sshd[122938]: pam_sss(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=node12.cluster.sec312 user=realtest
ldapclient sshd[122938]: pam_sss(sshd:auth): received for user realtest: 7 (Authentication failure)
ldapclient sshd[122938]: pam_ldap(sshd:auth): Authentication failure; user=realtest
ldapclient sshd[122936]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for realtest from node12.cluster.sec312

ATTEMPT TO SSH AS TEST USER TO LDAP CLIENT:
% ssh -v realtest@ldapclient
OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 60: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to ldapclient [] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key': Permission denied
debug1: could not open key file '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key': Permission denied
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: identity file /home/real/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.6.1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.6.1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.6.1 pat OpenSSH_6.6.1* compat 0x04000000
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com none
debug1: kex: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org need=16 dh_need=16
debug1: kex: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org need=16 dh_need=16
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ECDSA 14:c5:c2:60:29:ce:99:aa:67:41:a6:6a:11:2c:ca:86
debug1: Host 'ldapclient' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/real/.ssh/known_hosts:22
debug1: ssh_ecdsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-keyex
debug1: No valid Key exchange context
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available

debug1: Next authentication method: hostbased
debug1: No more client hostkeys for hostbased authentication.
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/real/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/real/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/real/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/real/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
Password: 
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password,keyboard-interactive,host based

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Liz