LDAP is not a requirement for XCAT. I still user standard user
authentication for XCAT.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Hermann <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> got a SLES 11.2 server running xCAT 2.8 and OpenLDAP 2.4.26.
> The LDAP occasionally does nasty things. Also, we have some problems on the
> cluster that maybe could be xCAT related. Taking a look at the syslog I see
> messages like this:
> [date, time, hostname] xCAT: xCAT: Allowing tabdump osimage for root from
> localhost
>
> One time while LDAP was messing around I tried to lsdef and tabdump, which
> both did not work. Or at least, not immediately - I cancelled the command.
> Unfortunately, did not think to wait if it would work after some waiting
> time...
>
> So, summing up the syslog messages and the behavior that tabdump doesn't
> work while LDAP is messing around, I conclude that xCAT sends an
> authorization request for some actions which in our case might be sent to
> LDAP.
> Is this conclusion correct?
>
> At the moment I do not yet have enough evidence to draw this link between
> xCAT and LDAP for sure. Additionally, I do not (yet) know how to trigger
> the LDAP error so that I have to wait until it occurs... And since we must
> solve this problem asap, I'm asking here.
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
>
> Jonathan Hermann
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