ssh hang issue(solved but now explain this..)

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Dennis Ruzeski <dennisr at corp.kanoodle.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the input!
> 
> 
> Here's the relevant from the nsswitch.conf
> passwd:     files ldap
> shadow:     files ldap
> group:      files ldap
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> We use an ldap server for authentication for everyone but root. 
> 
> It's up and running and although it has info on all the hosts, there
> should be no host lookup going to it.
> 
> The ssh fix was to remove ldap from passwd/shadow/group. 
> 
> So since there's no host lookup going to the ldap server, why was it
> causing a problem?
> 

Easy,  the SSH login will lookup the user/pass and if it can't find it in
passwd/shadow it'll contact the LDAP server.

 

Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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