yum update broke ldap

[D.P.]

This is on centos 2.6.32

We ad a disaster earlier in the week (/var got wiped ). We kind of hacked things back together and I think /var/lib was copied form some other distro... anyway, I went to do a yum update because everything was very old. The update went fine but now there are ldap issues and I can ssh in or use sudo.
Luckily I have an open ssh connection.

This is the error

sudo ls
sudo: ldap_sasl_bind_s(): Can't contact LDAP server
[sudo] password for USER:

But it never accepts the password.

The ldap service is running :

$ ps uax | grep ldap
ldap      2030  0.0  0.0 945048 49248 ?        Ssl  Sep16   5:07 /usr/sbin/slapd -h  ldap:/// ldaps:/// -u ldap

Beyond that I have no idea about ldap so I';m pretty stuck. Some point later the sys admin will find out and get pee'd: Hoping I can fix the mess I created.

 

[D.P.]

Thanks. Yes it is CentsOs 6

I gave up eventually and told the sys admin, he's been struggling for hours. I will pass on the information.