Straight from the Gentoo + LDAP page.

# pam ldap stuff
auth            sufficient      pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
account         sufficient      pam_ldap.so
password        sufficient      pam_ldap.so use_authtok use_first_pass
session         optional        pam_ldap.so

-james

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 15:13, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

On 3/11/2010, at 4:25pm, James wrote:
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I'm attempting to set up LDAP authentication against my OpenDS server on a Gentoo box. I've been struggling with this for several days now with no progress.

Here's the rundown of how things are configured (fairly straight forward):
...
==> auth.log <==
Nov  3 06:26:03 s_dgram@client.whatever.com sshd[2650]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for tb from blah.whatever.com

You've shown us all about your LDAP configuration, but nothing about your PAM configuration, or whether sshd or IMAP are configured to use PAM.

Stroller.