Login failure

joshuasee
Contributor III

I've been running into mysterious reports of no one being able to login on lab computers running 10.9.5 and the native AD client. Historically, this has meant domain connectivity issues, but when tested the machines seem to be connected, just not processing logins. The only trigger seems to be not rebooting after a day or so. NTP is enforcing the correct time. The testing command used is:

id -P  `dscl '/Active Directory/DomainHere/All Domains' -list Users | sed "${RANDOM:1:3}q;d"` | grep -v System.Administrator

Does anyone have suggestions of better (automatable) tests or logs to check for a better idea of what is going on?

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thoule
Valued Contributor II

This Post has some good information about testing AD binding. About halfway down is an EA that is useful for testing AD binding. Trouton also has a writeup on his blog to help diagnose and test.