[kde-freebsd] Kdm and LDAP authentication

[Dorian Büttner]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 11:48:26 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed KDE3 on FreeBSD here and it works fine. Then I
> configured LDAP authentication and login, su, and ssh worked
> without complaint either. However, Kdm refuses to start any
> session.
>
> The logfiles read:
>
> ----/var/log/kdm-bin.log
> KCrash: Application 'kdmgreet' crashing...
> Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
> --------------------------------
>
> ----/var/log/messages
> Aug  5 19:02:18 hostname kdm-bin: :0[32000]: Abnormal termination of
> greeter for display :0, code 0, signal 14 --------------------------------
>
> How can I debug this? What is going on here?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bertram


yes: 
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.ports.bugs/browse_thread/thread/b4d08b8aded452d5

You can propably start ldap server in debug mode and compare the output to 
some other, successful, login process.
That means, try to figure out what the ldapserver receives as user credential, 
search scope, bind credential etc.

Regards,
Dorian