Authentication nightmare under Fedora 7

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 14:31 -0800, Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Tim, hi,
> 
> > I got into a terrible mess yesterday,
> > when I ran authconfig.gtk on my desktop,
> > checking the ldap checkbox.
> > 
> > This was one step in the saga of configuring openldap -
> > possibly the worst-documented program in the history of computing.
> > This again seemed to be working, but whatever I tried
> > I got an authentication error.
> > Hence the disastrous idea of running authconfig,
> > which made the desktop seize up, and fail to re-boot,
> > hanging at "Starting system message bus".
> 
> <rant>
> 
> this issue of system hanging on boot when no LDAP server is reachable
> is IMNSHO the most embarrassing bug Fedora/RHEL has but despite the
> fact that it was reported already in the beginning of 2006 it still
> remains unfixed. With problems like this it's pretty hard to convince
> people to dump Microsoft Active Directory in favor of a Linux based
> solution when even a slight client/server communication break can
> prevent systems to get on their feet.
> 
> See all the glorious details at:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=186527
> 
> </rant>
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The solution is fairly well known/understood and the only thing left is
a decision about where to implement it.

This of course is a peculiar set of circumstances which involves a
number of daemons, some of which are under substantial development.

I see your issues were satisfied so I think you just chose the
opportunity to pile on.

Craig