timothy murphy sfseoquheircomnet thu 08 nov 2007 david golden wrote redhat systemconfigauth beware trash manual changes rerun handtweaking config generated nightmare experience yesterday running authconfiggtk following advice ancient redhat9 manual guess program suggesting case made desktop seize fail reboot hanging starting system message bus dont ask recall saga went get system working basically deleting mention ldap etcnsswitchconf file nsswitchconf seems like appendix nothing useful causes endless problems historical relic nss anyway anyone use nowadays wish never heard ldap nightmare configure openldap worstdocumented program linux means worstdocumented program anywhere computing authentication linux seems complete shambles innumerable rival systems sasl ssl tls etc misunderstood pam fit clear simple document authentication linux anywhere thu 07 aug 2008 211631 0000 fwd ilug pam ldap filesystem permissions