{"id":659,"date":"2014-06-01T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thogersens.net\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-01-17T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:13:22","slug":"thunderbird-and-ldap-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird and LDAP problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Thunderbird installed and is using LDAP to authorize user on Linux\/Ubuntu you might get the same problem as I used to have.<\/p>\n<p>The symptom could be Thunderbird crash after a minute or two.<br \/>\nYou might see this is your \/var\/log\/auth.log:<\/p>\n<pre>Jun\u00a0 1 10:26:50 &lt;host&gt; thunderbird: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP\r\nserver ldap:\/\/192.168.0.4: Can't connect to the LDAP server\r\nJun\u00a0 1 10:26:50 &lt;host&gt; thunderbird: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP \r\nserver - DSA is unavailable<\/pre>\n<p>I solved the problem by installeing LDAP connection daemon &#8211; <strong>nslcd<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install nslcd<\/pre>\n<p>Configure nlscd to connect to your LDAP server.<\/p>\n<p>You still have to configure Thunderbird if you want to use LDAP to lookup users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Thunderbird installed and is using LDAP to authorize user on Linux\/Ubuntu you might get the same problem as I used to have. The symptom could be Thunderbird crash after a minute or two. You might see this is your \/var\/log\/auth.log: Jun\u00a0 1 10:26:50 &lt;host&gt; thunderbird: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,36,35,37,9,4],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-14-04","tag-ldap","tag-linux","tag-nslcd","tag-thunderbird","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}