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Re: Netldi Connection Errors

Posted by Gemstone/S mailing list on Nov 01, 2019; 1:14am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Netldi-Connection-Errors-tp5106490p5106516.html

Hi Ian,

Let’s take a look at the documentation on version 3.5 (https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/versions35x/).

In the System Administration Guide, chapter 4 covers NetLDI and related issues. Starting on page 73 is a discussion of “who will own spawned processes?” The “Default mode” specifies that "In default mode, an ordinary user such as the administrative user, starts and owns the NetLDI process. Regardless of authentication level, all logins must provide the UNIX userId and password of the account that started the NetLDI” (emphasis added).

Looking at the Topaz Manual, page 12 begins a discussion of “Logging In to GemStone.” Among the parameters to be established to log in to GemStone through Topaz are “host user name and password”: "These are configured using the set command: set hostusername osUserName and set hostpassword osPassword.” Note that these "are needed only for RPC sessions.”

So, I’d suggest that you try a linked login (topaz -l) or set the hostusername and hostpassword before the login attempt. Alternatively, you could start NetLDI in “captive account mode” (startnetldi -g -a ian).

James

On Oct 31, 2019, at 5:56 PM, ian via GemStone-Smalltalk <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi James,

Thanks for your response.

I used the startnetldi - selects the default gs64ldi.

The stick bit is set for root on the netldid daemon so that would be unix
auth. Correct?

STDOUT gets the following on startnetldi:

ian@debian:/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux$ startnetldi
startnetldi[Info]: GemStone version '3.5.0'
startnetldi[Info]: Starting GemStone network server 'gs64ldi'.
startnetldi[Info]: GEMSTONE is:
'/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux'.
[Info]: Loaded
/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/lib/libnetldi-3.5.0-64.so
startnetldi[Info]: Log file is '/opt/gemstone/log/gs64ldi.log'.
startnetldi[Info]: GemStone server 'gs64ldi' has been started, process 12491
ian@debian:/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux$

The output for gslist -x is:

ian@debian:/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux$ gslist -x
gs64ldi
status= exists
type=    Netldi
version= 3.5.0
owner=   ian
started= Oct 31 20:50
pid=     12491
port=    50377
logfile= /opt/gemstone/log/gs64ldi.log
GEMSTONE=/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux
exe=/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/sys/netldid
gs64stone
status= exists
type=    Stone
version= 3.5.0
owner=   ian
started= Oct 30 20:15
pid=     9731
port=    43013
options= gs64stone
logfile=
/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/data/gs64stone.log
sysconf=
/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/data/system.conf
GEMSTONE=/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux
exe=/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/sys/stoned
gs64stone~b45385a4f1abf101
status= exists
type=    cache
version= 3.5.0
owner=   ian
started= Oct 30 20:15
pid=     9733
port=    40091
options= numPages=4687, maxClients=52, spinCount=5000,
targetFreeFrameCount=585, numFFThreads=1, numSharedCounters=1900,
monitorPort=0, LargePagePolicy=0, LargePageSizeMb=0
logfile=
/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/data/gs64stone_9733pcmon.log
GEMSTONE=/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux
exe=/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux/sys/shrpcmonitor
ian@debian:/opt/gemstone/app/GemStone64Bit3.5.0-x86_64.Linux$

The error that I get when attempting to login via topaz seem to suggest that
there is an ssl connection error. SSL seems to work everywhere else so this
seems to point to PAM. I have not explicitly setup
/etc/pam.d/gemstone.netldi as per the admin manual (I did try this though -
same result) and am attempting to use vanilla pam.

If it is PAM I fail to see why? (Although I am by no means a PAM expert.

Does this info help?

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